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12 years agoSmall reformat in evaluate_unstoppable_pawns()
Marco Costalba [Sun, 1 May 2011 06:11:58 +0000 (07:11 +0100)]
Small reformat in evaluate_unstoppable_pawns()

Also simplify tracing because evaluate_unstoppable_pawns()
return always zero if both colors have non pawn material.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
12 years agoUpdate polyglot.ini
Marco Costalba [Sun, 1 May 2011 06:49:40 +0000 (07:49 +0100)]
Update polyglot.ini

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
12 years agoRename check related functions
Marco Costalba [Fri, 29 Apr 2011 14:26:48 +0000 (16:26 +0200)]
Rename check related functions

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
12 years agoSmall renaming in thread.cpp
Marco Costalba [Fri, 29 Apr 2011 08:07:23 +0000 (10:07 +0200)]
Small renaming in thread.cpp

To better self document the code.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
12 years agoRename Option in UCIOPtion
Marco Costalba [Fri, 29 Apr 2011 07:18:54 +0000 (09:18 +0200)]
Rename Option in UCIOPtion

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
12 years agoLimit history range to +-2000
Marco Costalba [Thu, 28 Apr 2011 07:00:10 +0000 (08:00 +0100)]
Limit history range to +-2000

Extensive test series on tweaking history limit and bonus
formula. At the end this was the best.

After 11959 games:

Mod vs Orig 2087 - 1934 - 7938 ELO +4 (+- 3.7) LOS 92%

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
12 years agoPerft counts leaf nodes not generated moves.
Marco Costalba [Wed, 27 Apr 2011 22:20:42 +0000 (23:20 +0100)]
Perft counts leaf nodes not generated moves.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
12 years agoUse probe() as name for looking up into an hash table
Marco Costalba [Tue, 26 Apr 2011 12:10:02 +0000 (14:10 +0200)]
Use probe() as name for looking up into an hash table

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
12 years agoTidy up uci.cpp and siblings
Marco Costalba [Tue, 26 Apr 2011 09:19:57 +0000 (11:19 +0200)]
Tidy up uci.cpp and siblings

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
12 years agoMove OpeningBook and RK where are actually used
Marco Costalba [Tue, 26 Apr 2011 07:02:12 +0000 (09:02 +0200)]
Move OpeningBook and RK where are actually used

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
12 years agoFix a compile error with gcc
Marco Costalba [Mon, 25 Apr 2011 21:59:56 +0000 (22:59 +0100)]
Fix a compile error with gcc

It seems gcc does not like an extra semicolon.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
12 years agoMove MovePickerExt specializations away from headings
Marco Costalba [Mon, 25 Apr 2011 12:14:23 +0000 (13:14 +0100)]
Move MovePickerExt specializations away from headings

This unclutters a bit the heading part of search.cpp

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
12 years agoTidy up benchmark.cpp
Marco Costalba [Mon, 25 Apr 2011 09:46:52 +0000 (10:46 +0100)]
Tidy up benchmark.cpp

Node count is different just becuase now we don't log on
"bench.txt" file anymore so that we avoid some calls to
pretty_pv() that calls Position::do_move().

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
12 years agoLarge API rename in ThreadsManager
Marco Costalba [Sun, 24 Apr 2011 23:22:48 +0000 (00:22 +0100)]
Large API rename in ThreadsManager

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
12 years agoDon't allocate MAX_THREADS hash tables if not necessary
Marco Costalba [Sun, 24 Apr 2011 17:46:26 +0000 (18:46 +0100)]
Don't allocate MAX_THREADS hash tables if not necessary

This prevent crashing on mobile devices with limited RAM,
currently with MAX_THREADS = 32 we would need 44MB that
could be too much for a poor cellphone.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
12 years agoMove pawn and material tables under Thread class
Marco Costalba [Sun, 24 Apr 2011 08:20:03 +0000 (09:20 +0100)]
Move pawn and material tables under Thread class

This change allows to remove some quite a bit of code
and seems the natural thing to do.

Introduced file thread.cpp to move away from search.cpp a lot
of threads related stuff.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
12 years agoRename MOVES_MAX in MAX_MOVES
Marco Costalba [Sun, 24 Apr 2011 07:54:36 +0000 (08:54 +0100)]
Rename MOVES_MAX in MAX_MOVES

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
12 years agoRetire extensions as UCI option
Marco Costalba [Sun, 24 Apr 2011 07:31:47 +0000 (08:31 +0100)]
Retire extensions as UCI option

There is no real need why an user should change these values.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
12 years agoDocument why we use per-thread pawn and material tables
Marco Costalba [Sun, 24 Apr 2011 07:18:39 +0000 (08:18 +0100)]
Document why we use per-thread pawn and material tables

Arisen from a discussion on talkchess.

No fnctional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
12 years agoFix some comments in early stop detection
Marco Costalba [Sat, 23 Apr 2011 14:42:23 +0000 (15:42 +0100)]
Fix some comments in early stop detection

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
12 years agoRetire UseLogFile in search.cpp
Marco Costalba [Sat, 23 Apr 2011 13:57:05 +0000 (14:57 +0100)]
Retire UseLogFile in search.cpp

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
12 years agoIntroduce and use SearchLimits
Marco Costalba [Fri, 22 Apr 2011 13:52:03 +0000 (15:52 +0200)]
Introduce and use SearchLimits

Pack a bit of global variables related to search limits in
a single struct.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
12 years agoUse move_is_special() in pawn endgame condition
Marco Costalba [Fri, 22 Apr 2011 10:02:54 +0000 (12:02 +0200)]
Use move_is_special() in pawn endgame condition

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
12 years agoRetire SearchStartTime global
Marco Costalba [Fri, 22 Apr 2011 09:57:22 +0000 (11:57 +0200)]
Retire SearchStartTime global

Use a static variable inside current_search_time() instead.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
12 years agoReduce loops in init_threads() and exit_threads()
Marco Costalba [Fri, 22 Apr 2011 07:55:47 +0000 (09:55 +0200)]
Reduce loops in init_threads() and exit_threads()

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
12 years agoMove wake_sleeping_thread() to Thread class
Marco Costalba [Wed, 20 Apr 2011 09:18:36 +0000 (11:18 +0200)]
Move wake_sleeping_thread() to Thread class

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
12 years agoCorrectly implementg selDepth feature
Marco Costalba [Tue, 19 Apr 2011 08:24:43 +0000 (10:24 +0200)]
Correctly implementg selDepth feature

Send to GUI the deepest search depth apart from
qsearch of the PV line.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
12 years agoMove sleepLock and sleepCond under Thread
Marco Costalba [Tue, 19 Apr 2011 07:56:59 +0000 (09:56 +0200)]
Move sleepLock and sleepCond under Thread

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
12 years agoIncrease risk of blunders at low skill levels
Marco Costalba [Tue, 19 Apr 2011 07:29:28 +0000 (09:29 +0200)]
Increase risk of blunders at low skill levels

According to Heinz's tests current setup is in fact too
strong for weak players. This seems the best according
to his tests.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoUse only history to score non captures
Marco Costalba [Sat, 16 Apr 2011 09:25:22 +0000 (10:25 +0100)]
Use only history to score non captures

It seems gain is practically unuseful, so remove.

After 13554 games:
Mod vs Orig 2252 - 2319 - 8983 ELO -1 (+- 3.4)

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoSmall simplification in scale_by_game_phase()
Marco Costalba [Sun, 17 Apr 2011 09:31:26 +0000 (10:31 +0100)]
Small simplification in scale_by_game_phase()

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoMove ply to SearchStack
Marco Costalba [Sat, 16 Apr 2011 13:41:53 +0000 (14:41 +0100)]
Move ply to SearchStack

Shrink search() signature for better readibility.

We get also a nice 1.3% speed increase.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoRemove one indentation level in get_next_move()
Marco Costalba [Sat, 16 Apr 2011 10:24:30 +0000 (11:24 +0100)]
Remove one indentation level in get_next_move()

Small renaming and fix some comments.

No functional and no speed change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoCode style in tt.cpp
Marco Costalba [Fri, 15 Apr 2011 16:14:12 +0000 (18:14 +0200)]
Code style in tt.cpp

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoBetter self-document LMR reduction() formula
Marco Costalba [Fri, 15 Apr 2011 15:41:45 +0000 (17:41 +0200)]
Better self-document LMR reduction() formula

Suggested by Onno

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoPromote OptionsMap to a class
Marco Costalba [Thu, 14 Apr 2011 13:59:49 +0000 (15:59 +0200)]
Promote OptionsMap to a class

And add a bit of documentation too.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoFix a stale comment
Marco Costalba [Sat, 16 Apr 2011 09:21:13 +0000 (10:21 +0100)]
Fix a stale comment

Spotted by Onno

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoRemove src/COPYING file
Marco Costalba [Thu, 14 Apr 2011 06:06:56 +0000 (07:06 +0100)]
Remove src/COPYING file

It is enough the one in the base directory

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoRemove "divide by zero" workaround
Marco Costalba [Thu, 14 Apr 2011 06:04:32 +0000 (07:04 +0100)]
Remove "divide by zero" workaround

It is now useless because of the condition at the beginning.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoCleanup debug counters
Marco Costalba [Wed, 13 Apr 2011 13:12:33 +0000 (15:12 +0200)]
Cleanup debug counters

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoMove move_is_legal() under Position class
Marco Costalba [Wed, 13 Apr 2011 09:54:41 +0000 (11:54 +0200)]
Move move_is_legal() under Position class

It is a more logical place than in move generation file.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoSome more cleanup in endgame.cpp
Marco Costalba [Wed, 13 Apr 2011 07:08:19 +0000 (09:08 +0200)]
Some more cleanup in endgame.cpp

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoFix some warnings and a compile error with icc
Marco Costalba [Tue, 12 Apr 2011 05:27:00 +0000 (07:27 +0200)]
Fix some warnings and a compile error with icc

Unfortunatly icc does not understand that weakerSide and
strongerSide belongs to the base class :-(

So we have define them in the derived class.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoMove EndgameFunctions to endgame.cpp
Marco Costalba [Mon, 11 Apr 2011 16:12:41 +0000 (18:12 +0200)]
Move EndgameFunctions to endgame.cpp

And cleanup code while there.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoIncrease MaterialTableSize 8 times
Marco Costalba [Mon, 11 Apr 2011 13:33:35 +0000 (15:33 +0200)]
Increase MaterialTableSize 8 times

Now that we prefetch in material hash table we
can increase its size and gain something.

Hit rate is now of 98% from 92%

Speedup of 0.8%

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoIntroduce and use NoPawnsSF[] in material.cpp
Marco Costalba [Mon, 11 Apr 2011 12:50:56 +0000 (14:50 +0200)]
Introduce and use NoPawnsSF[] in material.cpp

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoTempeltize material imbalance
Marco Costalba [Mon, 11 Apr 2011 09:32:55 +0000 (11:32 +0200)]
Tempeltize material imbalance

Speedup of almost 1%

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoSync material.h with pawns.h
Marco Costalba [Mon, 11 Apr 2011 07:54:41 +0000 (09:54 +0200)]
Sync material.h with pawns.h

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoPrefetch also material tables
Marco Costalba [Mon, 11 Apr 2011 07:03:34 +0000 (09:03 +0200)]
Prefetch also material tables

Prefetch both pawn and material tables in do_move() and
prefetch always, not only after a pawn move or a capture.

Speed up of 0,7%

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoAssorted code style and comments in pawns.cpp and pawns.h
Marco Costalba [Sat, 9 Apr 2011 18:50:56 +0000 (19:50 +0100)]
Assorted code style and comments in pawns.cpp and pawns.h

The only interesting thing is that a backward or isolated
pawn cannot be a candidate passer, so code this condition.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoRetire mate threat extension
Marco Costalba [Fri, 8 Apr 2011 06:48:05 +0000 (07:48 +0100)]
Retire mate threat extension

It seems we have a lot of totally useless code !

After 8577 games 1504 - 1451 - 5622 ELO +2 (+- 4.4)

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoFix a compile error in debug mode
Marco Costalba [Thu, 7 Apr 2011 07:09:41 +0000 (08:09 +0100)]
Fix a compile error in debug mode

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoAssorted code style and comments in search.cpp
Marco Costalba [Sun, 3 Apr 2011 08:19:08 +0000 (09:19 +0100)]
Assorted code style and comments in search.cpp

Nothing really serious....

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoAdded -Wshadow option and fixed resulting warnings
Marco Costalba [Mon, 4 Apr 2011 07:53:44 +0000 (09:53 +0200)]
Added -Wshadow option and fixed resulting warnings

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoTeach SF to blunder
Marco Costalba [Sat, 2 Apr 2011 08:05:53 +0000 (09:05 +0100)]
Teach SF to blunder

Add blunder cabability to skill level feature.

The idea is that instead of choosing the best move at the end
of the ID loop, we now do this at a randomly chosen sampling depth
dependent on SkillLevel, so that at low skill levels we sample when
ID loop has reached only a small depth and so we have an higher
probability to pick up a blunder.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoUse prob cut search to prune bad captures
Joona Kiiski [Sat, 2 Apr 2011 07:15:05 +0000 (08:15 +0100)]
Use prob cut search to prune bad captures

The idea is to try a shallow search with reduced beta
on bad captures so to quickly prune them out in case
are really bad.

After 5529 games 966 - 868 - 3695  ELO +6 (+- 5.4) LOS 91%

Tested also version without upper limitation to 8 plies:

After 8780 games 1537 - 1398 - 5850  ELO +5 (+- 4.3) LOS 93%

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoRetire recapture extension also for PvNode
Marco Costalba [Sat, 26 Mar 2011 11:19:51 +0000 (12:19 +0100)]
Retire recapture extension also for PvNode

Seems that extension is useless.

After 10105 games
Mod vs Orig 1738 - 1702 - 6665  ELO +1 (+- 4)

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoUse a constant instead of value_mate_in(PLY_MAX)
Marco Costalba [Fri, 1 Apr 2011 12:35:39 +0000 (14:35 +0200)]
Use a constant instead of value_mate_in(PLY_MAX)

And also apply the same to value_mated_in(PLY_MAX)

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoRetire value_is_mate()
Marco Costalba [Fri, 1 Apr 2011 12:19:51 +0000 (14:19 +0200)]
Retire value_is_mate()

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoSimplify wait_for_stop_or_ponderhit()
Marco Costalba [Fri, 1 Apr 2011 11:48:13 +0000 (13:48 +0200)]
Simplify wait_for_stop_or_ponderhit()

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoRetire update_killers()
Marco Costalba [Fri, 1 Apr 2011 11:36:14 +0000 (13:36 +0200)]
Retire update_killers()

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoFine tune skill level
Marco Costalba [Sun, 27 Mar 2011 17:54:02 +0000 (18:54 +0100)]
Fine tune skill level

Rescaled Skill level from 0 to 20. At level 19 is still
comparable with Crafty 20.14, while at low levels strength
increase is now less steep.

Thanks to Joona and Heinz for testing and valuable
comments.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoAdd "Skill level functionality
Marco Costalba [Sun, 27 Mar 2011 10:23:29 +0000 (11:23 +0100)]
Add "Skill level functionality

It is now possible to adjust skill level of Stockfish
from 10 (full strength) to 0.

Skill adjustment is done in such a way that is CPU speed and
time control largely independent, at least at low skills. It
means that given a skill we have same play level on a mobile
phone and on a super OCTAL CPU, at 1' per game or at 180'.

At skill 9 strength is that of an average engine, I have used
Crafty 20.14 to tune and we are more or less there. At skill 0
engine is pretty weak but still shows a realistic play.

When skill is not used we don't have any impact on the regular
code.

Idea to use MultiPV is from Heinz van Saanen, implementation and
formulas by me.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoFix a compile error with icc
Marco Costalba [Sat, 26 Mar 2011 07:42:38 +0000 (08:42 +0100)]
Fix a compile error with icc

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoSend PV line to GUI only after resolving a fail high
Marco Costalba [Thu, 24 Mar 2011 10:06:00 +0000 (11:06 +0100)]
Send PV line to GUI only after resolving a fail high

This is how Shredder, Rybka and others do and
avoids user is confused by a fail high (sent to GUI)
followed by a fail low (not sent).

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoTriviality in position.cpp
Marco Costalba [Thu, 24 Mar 2011 09:05:14 +0000 (10:05 +0100)]
Triviality in position.cpp

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoRetire move_ambiguity() altogether
Marco Costalba [Wed, 23 Mar 2011 09:50:50 +0000 (10:50 +0100)]
Retire move_ambiguity() altogether

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoSimplify move_ambiguity()
Marco Costalba [Tue, 22 Mar 2011 08:24:14 +0000 (09:24 +0100)]
Simplify move_ambiguity()

And additional small touches in move.cpp

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoDo not send ponder move if we don't have it
Marco Costalba [Sat, 19 Mar 2011 15:00:09 +0000 (16:00 +0100)]
Do not send ponder move if we don't have it

Has been reported by Justin Blanchard that
this creates problems on some buggy GUI.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoUse intrinsic in pop_1st_bit() under MSVC 64 bits
Marco Costalba [Thu, 17 Mar 2011 12:47:15 +0000 (13:47 +0100)]
Use intrinsic in pop_1st_bit() under MSVC 64 bits

Around 1% speedup when compiled with MSVC 64

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoAdditional cleanup in bitbase.cpp
Marco Costalba [Sat, 12 Mar 2011 15:57:02 +0000 (16:57 +0100)]
Additional cleanup in bitbase.cpp

Also better document what code does.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoMove KPKBitbase[] where it belongs
Marco Costalba [Sat, 12 Mar 2011 11:04:02 +0000 (12:04 +0100)]
Move KPKBitbase[] where it belongs

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoFix a couple of issues in bitbase.cpp
Marco Costalba [Sat, 12 Mar 2011 10:22:02 +0000 (11:22 +0100)]
Fix a couple of issues in bitbase.cpp

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoReintroduce initialization of some bitboards
Marco Costalba [Thu, 10 Mar 2011 13:39:53 +0000 (14:39 +0100)]
Reintroduce initialization of some bitboards

With off-by-one bug in InFrontBB[] loop fixed.

Also use int instead of File to workaround a bug
in mingw 4.4.0 in first loop that cycles forever.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoRename NonSlidingAttacksBB[] in StepAttacksBB[]
Marco Costalba [Wed, 9 Mar 2011 08:58:26 +0000 (09:58 +0100)]
Rename NonSlidingAttacksBB[] in StepAttacksBB[]

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoUpdate copyright notes in rkiss.h
Marco Costalba [Wed, 9 Mar 2011 08:20:43 +0000 (09:20 +0100)]
Update copyright notes in rkiss.h

New info after a thread on talkchess:

http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=38313

and some emails exchange with Heinz.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoRevert previous patch due to miscompile under gcc
Marco Costalba [Thu, 10 Mar 2011 07:07:07 +0000 (08:07 +0100)]
Revert previous patch due to miscompile under gcc

I need to understand what's going on, in the
meantime revert.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoChange initialization of some bitboards
Marco Costalba [Tue, 8 Mar 2011 13:38:17 +0000 (14:38 +0100)]
Change initialization of some bitboards

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoIncrease MAX_THREADS to 32
Marco Costalba [Sun, 20 Feb 2011 10:07:13 +0000 (11:07 +0100)]
Increase MAX_THREADS to 32

No speed regression after 8731 games:
Mod vs Orig 1394 - 1342 - 5995  ELO +2 (+- 4.1)

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoIntroduce and use rot() in rkiss.h
Marco Costalba [Mon, 7 Mar 2011 17:13:02 +0000 (18:13 +0100)]
Introduce and use rot() in rkiss.h

Also fix indentation.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoSimplify aspirationDelta update rule
Marco Costalba [Tue, 1 Mar 2011 12:15:13 +0000 (13:15 +0100)]
Simplify aspirationDelta update rule

After 7522 games:
Mod vs Orig 1229 - 1148 - 5145  ELO +3 (+- 4.5) LOS 83%

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoBe sure to read options before to call trace_evaluate()
Marco Costalba [Tue, 1 Mar 2011 12:32:19 +0000 (13:32 +0100)]
Be sure to read options before to call trace_evaluate()

Otherwise in case we change an option with setoption and
then ask for "eval" command the evaluation is not updated.

Spotted by Justin Blanchard.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoFix aspiration corner case
Marco Costalba [Mon, 28 Feb 2011 19:17:57 +0000 (20:17 +0100)]
Fix aspiration corner case

Fix a corner case where we start aspiration window and
suddendly we get a VALUE_KNOWN_WIN / MATE score, this makes
aspiration to blow up in a series of researches loops.

Exit aspiration loop in that case.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoRemove a FIXME in id_loop()
Marco Costalba [Mon, 28 Feb 2011 08:00:17 +0000 (09:00 +0100)]
Remove a FIXME in id_loop()

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoScore root move list during first iteration
Marco Costalba [Sat, 26 Feb 2011 17:29:22 +0000 (18:29 +0100)]
Score root move list during first iteration

Use first iteration to get a proper startup score
and possibly detect an easy move.

After 5180 games:
Mod vs Orig 847 - 823 - 3510  ELO +1 (+- 5.5)

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoRemove an useless condition in equal SEE pruning
Marco Costalba [Sun, 27 Feb 2011 08:28:30 +0000 (09:28 +0100)]
Remove an useless condition in equal SEE pruning

Because we are never in check there and evaluation cannot
return a mated value the condition is useless.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoPrune moves with equal SEE in qsearch
Marco Costalba [Tue, 22 Feb 2011 22:23:45 +0000 (23:23 +0100)]
Prune moves with equal SEE in qsearch

After 5166 games:
Mod vs Orig 890 - 762 - 3514  ELO +8 (+- 5.5) LOS 96%

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoAdd evaluation tracing code
Marco Costalba [Sat, 26 Feb 2011 13:09:58 +0000 (14:09 +0100)]
Add evaluation tracing code

This patch is based on Justin Blanchard's original
work and allows to breakdown evaluation in its sub terms and
show to the user.

Tracing code has zero speed impact when not used.

Note that tracing code is not thread-safe, but this
should not be a problem given the typical usage scenario.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoCorrectly round evaluation to grain size
Marco Costalba [Mon, 21 Feb 2011 11:45:51 +0000 (12:45 +0100)]
Correctly round evaluation to grain size

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoDepth dependant singular extension margin
Marco Costalba [Thu, 17 Feb 2011 07:24:35 +0000 (08:24 +0100)]
Depth dependant singular extension margin

After 7965 games:
Mod vs Orig 1324 - 1249 - 5392  ELO +3 (+- 4.4) LOS 81%

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoMove all enum types definitions to types.h
Marco Costalba [Wed, 23 Feb 2011 20:27:22 +0000 (21:27 +0100)]
Move all enum types definitions to types.h

Cleanup headers while there.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoRetire color.h
Marco Costalba [Wed, 23 Feb 2011 13:34:00 +0000 (14:34 +0100)]
Retire color.h

Move contents to piece.h and square.h

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoRename piece_of_color_and_type() to make_piece()
Marco Costalba [Wed, 23 Feb 2011 13:25:46 +0000 (14:25 +0100)]
Rename piece_of_color_and_type() to make_piece()

To be aligned with make_square()

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoRetire piece_type_from_char()
Marco Costalba [Wed, 23 Feb 2011 13:17:18 +0000 (14:17 +0100)]
Retire piece_type_from_char()

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoTriviality in main.cpp
Marco Costalba [Wed, 23 Feb 2011 11:23:16 +0000 (12:23 +0100)]
Triviality in main.cpp

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoRetire enum SquareDelta
Marco Costalba [Wed, 23 Feb 2011 09:03:30 +0000 (10:03 +0100)]
Retire enum SquareDelta

Use Square instead. At the end is the same because we were
anyway foreseen operators on mixed terms (Square, SquareDelta).

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoSmall simplifications in square.h
Marco Costalba [Wed, 23 Feb 2011 08:43:47 +0000 (09:43 +0100)]
Small simplifications in square.h

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoIntroduce and use speed_to_uci()
Marco Costalba [Sat, 19 Feb 2011 11:22:23 +0000 (12:22 +0100)]
Introduce and use speed_to_uci()

And retire nps()

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoRename SplitPoint parentSstack
Marco Costalba [Fri, 18 Feb 2011 16:02:25 +0000 (17:02 +0100)]
Rename SplitPoint parentSstack

Now that we don't have anymore a search stack array in
SplitPoint we can rename this data member to somthing more
usual.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoRetire SearchStack sstack[] from SplitPoint
Marco Costalba [Fri, 18 Feb 2011 14:44:02 +0000 (15:44 +0100)]
Retire SearchStack sstack[] from SplitPoint

Use a local variable instead. To make it work we need to
correctly init next ply search stack at the beginning of the
search because now that ss is allocated on the stack instead
of on the global storage it contains garbage.

As a side effect we can peform a fast search stack
init in id_loop().

With this patch size of SplitPoint goes from 71944 to 136 bytes,
and consequently size of Thread goes from 575568 to 1104 bytes.

Finally the size of ThreadsManager that contains all the thread
info goes from 9209248 to just 17824 bytes !!

No functional change also in faked split.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>