From: xoto10 Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2019 07:24:13 +0000 (+0100) Subject: Encourage rook lift to third rank X-Git-Url: https://git.sesse.net/?p=stockfish;a=commitdiff_plain;h=defa1ccaa9c145b0ccff38a1ae660c052d753e81;hp=defa1ccaa9c145b0ccff38a1ae660c052d753e81;ds=sidebyside Encourage rook lift to third rank This change to the Rook psqt encourages rook lifts to the third rank on the two center files. STC 10+0.1 th 1 : LLR: 2.96 (-2.94,2.94) [0.00,4.00] Total: 40654 W: 9028 L: 8704 D: 22922 http://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/5d885da60ebc5906dd3e9fcd LTC 60+0.6 th 1 : LLR: 2.96 (-2.94,2.94) [0.00,4.00] Total: 56963 W: 9530 L: 9196 D: 38237 http://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/5d88618c0ebc5906dd3ea45f Thanks to @snicolet for mentioning that Komodo does this a lot and Stockfish doesn't, which gave me the idea for this patch, and to @noobpwnftw for providing cores to fishtest which allowed very quick testing. Future work: perhaps this can be refined somehow to encourage this on other files, my attempts have failed. Closes https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/pull/2322 Bench: 3950249 ---