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13 years agoWorkaround broken function-style cast support in HP-UX
Marco Costalba [Mon, 3 Jan 2011 10:36:32 +0000 (11:36 +0100)]
Workaround broken function-style cast support in HP-UX

It seems HP's ANSI C++ doesn't understand very well
standard function-style cast.

Reported by Richard Lloyd.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoReadd SRWLOCK and Condition Variables under Windows
Marco Costalba [Mon, 3 Jan 2011 09:49:33 +0000 (10:49 +0100)]
Readd SRWLOCK and Condition Variables under Windows

And set them as default.

Introduce compile switch OLD_LOCKS to allow to fallback on
compatible locks supported by Windows XP and older versions.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoFix Chess960 regression
Marco Costalba [Sun, 2 Jan 2011 23:35:05 +0000 (00:35 +0100)]
Fix Chess960 regression

Introduced by me in before 1.9 and found by Tord that says:

The 'isChess960' slot in the 'Position' class is currently
set depending on the initial files of the rooks, and not on the value
of the UCI_Chess960 parameter. This is incorrect, as there are lots of
Chess960 positions where the rooks start on the usual files. As a
consequence (unless I am missing something), Stockfish will occasionally
output castling moves as e1g1/e1c1 rather than the correct e1h1/e1a1 format
in Chess960 games. It is possible that some or even most GUIs are robust
enough to accept both notations, but I wouldn't bet on it. And in any case,
Stockfish's behavior clearly violates the protocol.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoAnother (final?) attempt at squares_delta()
Marco Costalba [Sun, 2 Jan 2011 10:45:03 +0000 (11:45 +0100)]
Another (final?) attempt at squares_delta()

This time I have removed the function alltogether !

Sorry to work above a patch of UncombedCoconut (Justin Blanchard)
but I couldn't resist ;-)

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoFix old Glaurung bug related to search logging
Marco Costalba [Sun, 2 Jan 2011 10:21:37 +0000 (11:21 +0100)]
Fix old Glaurung bug related to search logging

When we log best and ponder move to a file before to
return from think we change the position. If position is
then not resended by GUI, as for manual user input we got
an error:

justinb@malibu:~$ stockfish
Stockfish 2.0 JA 64bit by Tord Romstad, Marco Costalba, Joona Kiiski
setoption name Use Search Log value true
go depth 1
info depth 1
info depth 1 seldepth 1 multipv 1 score cp 72 time 59 nodes 20 nps 338 pv g1f3
info depth 2
info depth 2 seldepth 2 multipv 1 score cp 12 time 59 nodes 44 nps 745 pv g1f3 g8f6
info nodes 84 nps 1423 time 59
bestmove g1f3 ponder g8f6
go depth 1
info depth 1 score mate 0
info nodes 87 nps 0 time 0
bestmove (none) ponder (none)

Bug spotted and fixed by UncombedCoconut.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoSimplify squares_delta()
Marco Costalba [Sun, 2 Jan 2011 09:41:05 +0000 (10:41 +0100)]
Simplify squares_delta()

And rename in ray_direction()

Patch from UncombedCoconut.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoFix a crash on multi-pv
Marco Costalba [Sat, 1 Jan 2011 22:10:37 +0000 (23:10 +0100)]
Fix a crash on multi-pv

Bug reported by Tobias Haspel and fixed by Joona.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoRestore development version
Marco Costalba [Sat, 1 Jan 2011 11:28:33 +0000 (12:28 +0100)]
Restore development version

And set "Use Sleeping Threads" to true because it keeps
much more responsive and cool my QUAD during tests :-)

It will be reverted back before to release that's the
reason to bundle it here.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoStockfish 2.0 (take 2)
Marco Costalba [Sat, 1 Jan 2011 15:08:55 +0000 (16:08 +0100)]
Stockfish 2.0 (take 2)

Always same siganture: 7224363

Hopefully some more bug fixed and restored
compatibility with WIndows XP.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoDon't use SRWLOCK and Condition Variables under Windows
Marco Costalba [Sat, 1 Jan 2011 14:49:26 +0000 (15:49 +0100)]
Don't use SRWLOCK and Condition Variables under Windows

They are not compatible with Windows XP

Revert to old CRITICAL_SECTION locks and events.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoFix an off-by-one bug in sort_multipv()
Marco Costalba [Sat, 1 Jan 2011 14:07:45 +0000 (15:07 +0100)]
Fix an off-by-one bug in sort_multipv()

Second parameter of insertion_sort() is a pointer to the
element _after_ the last of the list, e.g. end() when sorting
all items.

If we want to sort say the first 2 moves we should write:

sort_multipv(2);

So, becuase in root moves loop move counter 'i' starts
from 0, we need to pass:

sort_multipv(i+1);

To sort up to move 'i' included.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoRemove artificial Iteration >= 3 constraint on time manager
Marco Costalba [Sat, 1 Jan 2011 13:13:15 +0000 (14:13 +0100)]
Remove artificial Iteration >= 3 constraint on time manager

It doesn't seem to have any meaning.

Also add a FIXME on the MaxNodes condition that now is broken
in SMP case due to known issue with pos.nodes_searched()

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoFix: Honour UCI "quit" command while still in the book
Marco Costalba [Sat, 1 Jan 2011 12:54:44 +0000 (13:54 +0100)]
Fix: Honour UCI "quit" command while still in the book

We were not quitting the engine after a "quit" command
while still in the book and pondering.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoSimplify "ponderhit" handling
Marco Costalba [Sat, 1 Jan 2011 12:48:08 +0000 (13:48 +0100)]
Simplify "ponderhit" handling

If flag StopOnPonderhit is set it means that we UseTimeManagement
and also we are at Iteration >= 3.

So we can safely simplify the formula.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoRetire ponderhit()
Marco Costalba [Sat, 1 Jan 2011 12:08:09 +0000 (13:08 +0100)]
Retire ponderhit()

It is called only from one place, so move code there.

Add a bit of renaming and documentation while at there.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoRestore development version
Marco Costalba [Sat, 1 Jan 2011 11:28:33 +0000 (12:28 +0100)]
Restore development version

And set "Use Sleeping Threads" to true because it keeps
much more responsive and cool my QUAD during tests :-)

It will be reverted back before to release that's the
reason to bundle it here.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoStockfish 2.0
Marco Costalba [Fri, 31 Dec 2010 10:50:05 +0000 (11:50 +0100)]
Stockfish 2.0

stockfish bench signature is: 7224363

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoSend correct searched nodes statistic
Marco Costalba [Fri, 31 Dec 2010 17:18:23 +0000 (18:18 +0100)]
Send correct searched nodes statistic

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoRemove dubious castle detector
Marco Costalba [Fri, 31 Dec 2010 13:32:25 +0000 (14:32 +0100)]
Remove dubious castle detector

It was introduced by patch 66d16592 of 22/3/2009 merging
from Glarurung iPhone.

Tord says:
That change is only found in the Glaurung iPhone app, and not
in the latest Glaurung UCI source code. I don't remember why
this was added (and the iPhone app, unlike the UCI engine,
was never version controlled), but it was almost certainly
because it was somehow needed in the communication between
the engine and the iPhone GUI, and that it was never meant to be
included in the UCI engine. My guess is that it has something to
do with castling moves being entered as e1-g1 in the GUI, but
represented as e1-h1 in the chess engine.

Removing it in Stockfish should be completely safe, and won't harm
the iPhone version. Initially the iPhone GUI called functions in the
chess engine for checking for legality of moves, writing the move
list in SAN format, and various other tasks, but this is no longer
the case in the current version.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoImplement "seldepth" UCI info
Marco Costalba [Fri, 31 Dec 2010 12:19:05 +0000 (13:19 +0100)]
Implement "seldepth" UCI info

This is the "selective search depth in plies" and we set
equal to PV line length.

Tested that works under FritzGUI.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoRetire a couple of unused debug functions
Marco Costalba [Thu, 30 Dec 2010 15:27:16 +0000 (16:27 +0100)]
Retire a couple of unused debug functions

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoLeave threads go to sleep when waiting for a ponderhit
Marco Costalba [Thu, 30 Dec 2010 15:18:22 +0000 (16:18 +0100)]
Leave threads go to sleep when waiting for a ponderhit

No need to heat up CPU in this case ;-)

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoMove printing of best move on think
Marco Costalba [Thu, 30 Dec 2010 14:45:43 +0000 (15:45 +0100)]
Move printing of best move on think

It seems a more appropiate place (IMHO) and helps to clarify
that idle_loop() should return a move, not a score.

Fix also handling of stalemate positions (we were not
sending any score) and we don't need to wait on "ponderhit",
this is done when returning in think().

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoUnify single and multi PV 'new best move' handling
Marco Costalba [Thu, 30 Dec 2010 11:53:02 +0000 (12:53 +0100)]
Unify single and multi PV 'new best move' handling

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoMove print_pv_info() under RootMove
Marco Costalba [Thu, 30 Dec 2010 10:55:25 +0000 (11:55 +0100)]
Move print_pv_info() under RootMove

And rename to pv_info_to_uci()

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoBetter document value_to_uci()
Marco Costalba [Thu, 30 Dec 2010 10:46:53 +0000 (11:46 +0100)]
Better document value_to_uci()

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoStandardize root_search() signature
Marco Costalba [Thu, 30 Dec 2010 09:38:02 +0000 (10:38 +0100)]
Standardize root_search() signature

Now pass alpha and beta by copy as in serach()

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoMove extract_pv_from_tt() and insert_pv_in_tt() under RootMove
Marco Costalba [Wed, 29 Dec 2010 10:00:32 +0000 (11:00 +0100)]
Move extract_pv_from_tt() and insert_pv_in_tt() under RootMove

Functional change only due to additional do/undo move
but absolutly harmless.

Also handle re-insertion in tt of PV lines also for multi PV case.

13 years agoUse rml[0].pv[] instead of dedicated pv[] array
Marco Costalba [Wed, 29 Dec 2010 07:47:14 +0000 (08:47 +0100)]
Use rml[0].pv[] instead of dedicated pv[] array

We have a small functionality change in case we have a
fail-high so that both rml[].pv and pv[] are updated, but if,
after researching, we have a fail-low then rml score is updated
again but pv[] remains the same and coming back from search we
used a PV line that has failed-low (after having failed-high).

With this patch we always use the 'correct' PV line, i.e. the
line with highest score at the end of the whole search.

Retire also redundant RootMove's 'move' member and directly
use pv[0] instead.

13 years agoLast small touches in RootMoveList
Marco Costalba [Tue, 28 Dec 2010 18:05:24 +0000 (19:05 +0100)]
Last small touches in RootMoveList

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoRetire LMR intermediate research
Marco Costalba [Mon, 20 Dec 2010 15:42:07 +0000 (16:42 +0100)]
Retire LMR intermediate research

It does not seem to improve anything.

After 8344 games Mod - Orig:
1362 - 1321 - 5661 ELO +2

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoUse insertion_sort() in RootMoveList
Marco Costalba [Tue, 28 Dec 2010 12:29:53 +0000 (13:29 +0100)]
Use insertion_sort() in RootMoveList

Simplify code and get a bit of extra speed, about +0.5%

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoRedefine MoveStack comparison as the natural one
Marco Costalba [Tue, 28 Dec 2010 10:45:57 +0000 (11:45 +0100)]
Redefine MoveStack comparison as the natural one

Define symbol '<' to mean 'minor of', as it should be. Its meaning
was reversed to be used with std::sort() that sorts in ascending order
while we want a descending order.

But now that we use our own sorting code we don't need this
trick anymore.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoFix broken last patch series
Marco Costalba [Tue, 28 Dec 2010 09:16:53 +0000 (10:16 +0100)]
Fix broken last patch series

When a reference breaks things !

Here we take a reference (that is a pointer) to an
entry in a vector that changes below us --> BOOM !

References are essential but should be considered with
care in C++ because could lead to nasty surprises.

Restored functionality.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoSpeedup moves root list sorting
Marco Costalba [Mon, 27 Dec 2010 12:29:52 +0000 (13:29 +0100)]
Speedup moves root list sorting

Instead of a default member by member copy use set_pv()
to copy the useful part of pv[] array and skip the remaining.

This greatly speeds up sorting of root move list !

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoUse a std::vector to store root moves
Marco Costalba [Mon, 27 Dec 2010 11:20:26 +0000 (12:20 +0100)]
Use a std::vector to store root moves

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoRename RootMoveList members removing 'move'
Marco Costalba [Mon, 27 Dec 2010 09:52:04 +0000 (10:52 +0100)]
Rename RootMoveList members removing 'move'

It is redundant being a move list ;-)

Also better document the two scores used by root list.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoRetire DirectionTable[]
Marco Costalba [Sun, 26 Dec 2010 23:13:10 +0000 (00:13 +0100)]
Retire DirectionTable[]

With this patch even word 'direction' is disappeared !

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoRetire direction.cpp
Marco Costalba [Sun, 26 Dec 2010 15:27:58 +0000 (16:27 +0100)]
Retire direction.cpp

Move the code to bitboard.cpp

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoRetire enum Direction
Marco Costalba [Sun, 26 Dec 2010 11:41:30 +0000 (12:41 +0100)]
Retire enum Direction

Use SquareDelta instead

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoRetire SignedDirectionTable[] and RayBB[]
Marco Costalba [Sun, 26 Dec 2010 10:58:48 +0000 (11:58 +0100)]
Retire SignedDirectionTable[] and RayBB[]

Function ray_bb() was used just in one endgame where can
be used squares_in_front_of() instead.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoRetire direction.h
Marco Costalba [Sun, 26 Dec 2010 09:54:45 +0000 (10:54 +0100)]
Retire direction.h

Move all to square.h

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoSimplify enum SquareDelta definition
Marco Costalba [Sun, 26 Dec 2010 09:21:48 +0000 (10:21 +0100)]
Simplify enum SquareDelta definition

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoUnify MovePicker c'tor call
Marco Costalba [Sat, 25 Dec 2010 17:03:43 +0000 (18:03 +0100)]
Unify MovePicker c'tor call

And use the standard one.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoUse generate_moves() in san.cpp
Marco Costalba [Sat, 25 Dec 2010 10:22:55 +0000 (11:22 +0100)]
Use generate_moves() in san.cpp

Instead of MovePicker and cleanup san.cpp

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoIgnore two braindamaged remarks under icc
Marco Costalba [Sat, 25 Dec 2010 07:59:47 +0000 (08:59 +0100)]
Ignore two braindamaged remarks under icc

Remark 1418: external function definition with no prior declaration

and

Remark 1419: external declaration in primary source file

Can be safely ignored because are pure idiocy.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoRenamed thread_should_stop() in cutoff_at_splitpoint()
Marco Costalba [Fri, 24 Dec 2010 23:11:53 +0000 (00:11 +0100)]
Renamed thread_should_stop() in cutoff_at_splitpoint()

It is more clear what happened.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoSimplify a condition in update of best move
Marco Costalba [Fri, 24 Dec 2010 16:07:00 +0000 (17:07 +0100)]
Simplify a condition in update of best move

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoTriviality in struct PieceLetters
Marco Costalba [Fri, 24 Dec 2010 14:25:11 +0000 (15:25 +0100)]
Triviality in struct PieceLetters

And little touches in search() too.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoBetter clarify how we use TT depth in qsearch
Marco Costalba [Sat, 18 Dec 2010 09:27:24 +0000 (10:27 +0100)]
Better clarify how we use TT depth in qsearch

Namely we use only two types of depth in TT:
DEPTH_QS_CHECKS or DEPTH_QS_NO_CHECKS.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoSecond cleanup wave on check_is_useless()
Marco Costalba [Wed, 15 Dec 2010 08:14:01 +0000 (09:14 +0100)]
Second cleanup wave on check_is_useless()

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoLet check_is_useless() follow SF coding style
Joona Kiiski [Tue, 14 Dec 2010 13:49:06 +0000 (15:49 +0200)]
Let check_is_useless() follow SF coding style

No functional change

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoFixed a bug in move_from_uci(): En passant captures were not handled
Tord Romstad [Tue, 14 Dec 2010 11:07:37 +0000 (12:07 +0100)]
Fixed a bug in move_from_uci(): En passant captures were not handled
correctly.

13 years agoSelective checks at qsearch
Joona Kiiski [Sun, 12 Dec 2010 09:54:50 +0000 (11:54 +0200)]
Selective checks at qsearch

After 5821 games
Mod- Orig:  1014 - 869 - 3938 ELO +8 (+- 3.6) LOS 97%

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoRetire uci_main_loop()
Marco Costalba [Mon, 13 Dec 2010 10:17:06 +0000 (11:17 +0100)]
Retire uci_main_loop()

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoSmall cleanup in uci.cpp
Marco Costalba [Mon, 13 Dec 2010 08:48:12 +0000 (09:48 +0100)]
Small cleanup in uci.cpp

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoRetire square_from_string()
Marco Costalba [Thu, 9 Dec 2010 11:10:02 +0000 (12:10 +0100)]
Retire square_from_string()

And rename move_from/to_string() in a more specific
move_from/to_uci() that is a simple coordinate notation.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoMove the last multi-threads globals to ThreadsManager
Marco Costalba [Sun, 12 Dec 2010 11:46:10 +0000 (12:46 +0100)]
Move the last multi-threads globals to ThreadsManager

Also rename ThreadsManager memeber data to be lower case.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoFurther reduce sleep lock contention
Marco Costalba [Sun, 12 Dec 2010 10:06:36 +0000 (11:06 +0100)]
Further reduce sleep lock contention

Use one sleep lock per thread insted of a single one shared.

Also renamed WaitLock in SleepLock.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoAllow threads to sleep when available
Marco Costalba [Sun, 7 Nov 2010 22:45:13 +0000 (23:45 +0100)]
Allow threads to sleep when available

By mean of an an UCI option it is possible let the available
threads to sleep, this should help with Hyper Threading although
is not the best solution when number of threads equals number
of available cores.

Option is disabled by default.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoIncrease MAX_THREADS to 16
Marco Costalba [Sat, 4 Dec 2010 08:18:18 +0000 (09:18 +0100)]
Increase MAX_THREADS to 16

No speed regression and no functional change.

After 7826 games Mod- Orig:
1188 - 1230 - 5408 ELO -1 (+- 3.1)

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoIncrease PV LMR to SF 1.8 levels
Marco Costalba [Sun, 5 Dec 2010 16:54:35 +0000 (17:54 +0100)]
Increase PV LMR to SF 1.8 levels

Non-PV LMR is left unchanged.

After 8819 games
Mod- Orig:  1442 - 1343 - 6034 ELO +3 (+- 2.9) LOS 86%

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoVarious cleanups in Position's ancillary functions
Marco Costalba [Mon, 6 Dec 2010 09:26:01 +0000 (10:26 +0100)]
Various cleanups in Position's ancillary functions

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoFix a crash due to a broken Book::open()
Marco Costalba [Sat, 4 Dec 2010 20:19:22 +0000 (21:19 +0100)]
Fix a crash due to a broken Book::open()

Bug introduced in 9dcc2aad98b9703

We can be asked to open a non-exsistent file,
in this case we should gracefully handle the
case and silently return instead of exiting.

Bug discovered and bisected down by Joona.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoNew try for unstoppable pawn evaluation
Joona Kiiski [Sat, 13 Nov 2010 16:42:12 +0000 (18:42 +0200)]
New try for unstoppable pawn evaluation

This time we try very hard to avoid false positives.
The obvious downside is that we also miss many true
winning positions.

After 10544 games on RC
Mod- Orig:  1744  - 1646 - 7154 ELO +3 (+- 2.7) LOS 83%

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoAllow razoring after a null move
Marco Costalba [Sat, 30 Oct 2010 14:28:33 +0000 (15:28 +0100)]
Allow razoring after a null move

After 8322 games on Russian Cluster
Mod- Orig:  1341 - 1281 - 5700 ELO +2 (+- 3) LOS 75%

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoPrune all negative see moves at low depths
Joona Kiiski [Tue, 30 Nov 2010 12:46:41 +0000 (14:46 +0200)]
Prune all negative see moves at low depths

After 2036 games Mod- Orig:
381 - 278 - 1377 ELO +17 (+- 6.2) LOS 99%

One of the biggest increases ever !

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoFix bestmove output in multi PV case
Marco Costalba [Sun, 28 Nov 2010 16:05:49 +0000 (17:05 +0100)]
Fix bestmove output in multi PV case

When MultiPV > 1, always take bestmove from the RootMoveList
(and don't bother with a ponder move). Without that the bestmove
is most probably incorrect.

Patch from Peter Petrov.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoFix 'generation' type to uint8_t
Marco Costalba [Mon, 22 Nov 2010 17:40:36 +0000 (18:40 +0100)]
Fix 'generation' type to uint8_t

When we store this value in TT we cut this to 9 bits,
so we need a smaller variable otherwise comparisons
like:

   replace->generation() == generation

Are always false if generation is bigger then the maximum
TT storable value.

This fixes a very nasty and difficult to spot bug (2 weeks for
regression hunting).

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoRevert sleeping threads
Marco Costalba [Fri, 19 Nov 2010 06:59:51 +0000 (07:59 +0100)]
Revert sleeping threads

Revert 141caf1d5b64 + c59efc53c9

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoRevert "Allow split point master to sleep (take 2)"
Marco Costalba [Tue, 23 Nov 2010 06:00:30 +0000 (07:00 +0100)]
Revert "Allow split point master to sleep (take 2)"

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoWe don't need a stringstream in buildKey()
Marco Costalba [Tue, 23 Nov 2010 08:09:15 +0000 (09:09 +0100)]
We don't need a stringstream in buildKey()

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoRetire Application class
Marco Costalba [Mon, 22 Nov 2010 13:55:56 +0000 (14:55 +0100)]
Retire Application class

It is a redundant boiler plate, just call initialization and
resource release directly from main()

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoRetire piece.cpp
Marco Costalba [Mon, 22 Nov 2010 10:50:58 +0000 (11:50 +0100)]
Retire piece.cpp

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoUCI options names should not be case sensitive
Marco Costalba [Sun, 21 Nov 2010 22:28:17 +0000 (23:28 +0100)]
UCI options names should not be case sensitive

Correctly handle uci option names in a case insensitive way.

Alos fix some indentation while there.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoRetire "New Game" UCI option
Marco Costalba [Sun, 21 Nov 2010 13:23:16 +0000 (14:23 +0100)]
Retire "New Game" UCI option

Was introduced by 403db5a6e9f
on 1/12/2009 to correctly handle "loose on time"
LSN filtering functionality, but is now unused.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoRemove hardcoded 16 from benchmark default positions size
Marco Costalba [Sun, 21 Nov 2010 12:06:53 +0000 (13:06 +0100)]
Remove hardcoded 16 from benchmark default positions size

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoMicro-optimize pl_move_is_legal()
Marco Costalba [Sun, 21 Nov 2010 11:43:16 +0000 (12:43 +0100)]
Micro-optimize pl_move_is_legal()

This L1/L2 optimization has an incredible +4.7% speedup
in perft test where this function is the most time consumer.

Verified a speed up also in normal bench, although smaller.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoStore "true" and "false" in bool options
Marco Costalba [Sat, 20 Nov 2010 13:23:28 +0000 (14:23 +0100)]
Store "true" and "false" in bool options

UCI protocol uses "true" and "false" for check and button types,
so store that values instead of "1" and "0", this simplifies a
bit the code.

Also a bit strictier option's type checking in debug mode.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoDebug counters don't need to be global
Marco Costalba [Sat, 20 Nov 2010 10:48:04 +0000 (11:48 +0100)]
Debug counters don't need to be global

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoSmall touches to engine_name()
Marco Costalba [Fri, 19 Nov 2010 16:03:44 +0000 (17:03 +0100)]
Small touches to engine_name()

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoUse occupied_squares() in book_key()
Marco Costalba [Tue, 16 Nov 2010 18:28:09 +0000 (19:28 +0100)]
Use occupied_squares() in book_key()

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoRearrange pawn moves generation
Marco Costalba [Tue, 16 Nov 2010 08:42:12 +0000 (09:42 +0100)]
Rearrange pawn moves generation

This patch greatly cleanups generation of pawn moves but
we change the order in which moves are generated so there is
a change in functionality, but not in perft.

The only real functionality change is that now when type == CHECK
we generate knight underpromotion captures only if give check and
not always as before.

Perft is 2% faster and fully verified.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoIntroduce generate_promotions()
Marco Costalba [Tue, 16 Nov 2010 07:51:07 +0000 (08:51 +0100)]
Introduce generate_promotions()

A bit ugly to guarantee no functional change.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoSimplify generate_pawn_captures()
Marco Costalba [Mon, 15 Nov 2010 15:27:05 +0000 (16:27 +0100)]
Simplify generate_pawn_captures()

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoCleanup Bioskey()
Marco Costalba [Mon, 15 Nov 2010 12:49:13 +0000 (13:49 +0100)]
Cleanup Bioskey()

And rename in dataAvailable()

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoLet bench to have full defaults arguments
Marco Costalba [Mon, 8 Nov 2010 19:49:40 +0000 (20:49 +0100)]
Let bench to have full defaults arguments

Now stockfish bench' defaults to

stockfish bench 128 1 12 default depth

that is the most used line (at least by me)

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoVarious cleanup in book.cpp
Marco Costalba [Mon, 8 Nov 2010 14:30:12 +0000 (15:30 +0100)]
Various cleanup in book.cpp

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoLet benchmark to default to depth 12
Marco Costalba [Mon, 8 Nov 2010 10:08:01 +0000 (11:08 +0100)]
Let benchmark to default to depth 12

And also simplify a lot the code.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoMove PieceValue[] and SlidingArray[] where they belong
Marco Costalba [Mon, 8 Nov 2010 08:44:28 +0000 (09:44 +0100)]
Move PieceValue[] and SlidingArray[] where they belong

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoAllow split point master to sleep (take 2)
Marco Costalba [Sun, 7 Nov 2010 22:45:13 +0000 (23:45 +0100)]
Allow split point master to sleep (take 2)

Let to sleep even split point master, it will be waken
up by its slaves when they return from the search.

This time let it be enabled by an UCI option, so
people is free to test it on their Hyper Thread box.

Option is disabled by default.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoUse namespace in position.cpp
Marco Costalba [Sun, 7 Nov 2010 12:41:21 +0000 (13:41 +0100)]
Use namespace in position.cpp

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoRetire uci.h and benchmark.h
Marco Costalba [Sun, 7 Nov 2010 12:22:13 +0000 (13:22 +0100)]
Retire uci.h and benchmark.h

Moved the single prototipes where are needed.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoObject OpeningBook doen't need to be global
Marco Costalba [Sun, 7 Nov 2010 12:12:48 +0000 (13:12 +0100)]
Object OpeningBook doen't need to be global

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoMake rkiss seed deterministic
Marco Costalba [Sun, 7 Nov 2010 11:33:17 +0000 (12:33 +0100)]
Make rkiss seed deterministic

Search at fixed depth with one thread must be
reproducible so remove randomess from time().

Also better license description.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoLet rkiss.h to follow SF coding style
Marco Costalba [Sun, 7 Nov 2010 11:11:01 +0000 (12:11 +0100)]
Let rkiss.h to follow SF coding style

Fix also Makefile after mersenne.cpp has been removed

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoUse Heinz's RKiss instead of marsenne
Marco Costalba [Sun, 7 Nov 2010 10:13:17 +0000 (11:13 +0100)]
Use Heinz's RKiss instead of marsenne

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoFix an off by one bug in print_uci_options()
Marco Costalba [Fri, 5 Nov 2010 12:59:48 +0000 (13:59 +0100)]
Fix an off by one bug in print_uci_options()

Last option was not printed.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoRetire bitbase.h
Marco Costalba [Fri, 5 Nov 2010 12:53:13 +0000 (13:53 +0100)]
Retire bitbase.h

Moved the only prototipe where is needed.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
13 years agoRewrite options handling in an object oriented fashion
Marco Costalba [Thu, 4 Nov 2010 07:03:27 +0000 (08:03 +0100)]
Rewrite options handling in an object oriented fashion

Big rewrite and about 100 lines removed.

No functional change.

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