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9 years agoRemoves useless templates, some of which lead to code duplication: is_K*() functions.
lucasart [Sat, 7 Feb 2015 09:09:56 +0000 (09:09 +0000)]
Removes useless templates, some of which lead to code duplication: is_K*() functions.

No functional change

Resolves #245

9 years agoAdd bonus for pawn attack threats
Stefan Geschwentner [Tue, 3 Feb 2015 03:16:50 +0000 (11:16 +0800)]
Add bonus for pawn attack threats

Latent pawn attacks: Add a bonus to safe pawn pushes which attacks an
enemy piece.  Based on an idea of Lyudmil Tsvetkov.

STC:
LLR: 2.95 (-2.94,2.94) [-1.50,4.50]
Total: 7925 W: 1666 L: 1537 D: 4722

LTC:
LLR: 2.95 (-2.94,2.94) [0.00,6.00]
Total: 40109 W: 6841 L: 6546 D: 26722

Bench: 7696257

Resolves #240

9 years agoProfile build options
mstembera [Tue, 3 Feb 2015 03:09:37 +0000 (11:09 +0800)]
Profile build options

I went through all the individual compile options that differ between
-fprofile-generate/-fprofile-use  and  -fprofile-arcs/-fbranch-probabilities
and distilled the speed difference down to only turning off
-fno-peel-loops and -fno-tracer.  Using this we still get the full speedup
(maybe a bit more because other optimizations stay on) and it's also much cleaner
because we can get rid of the "@rm -f ucioption.gc*" hack for all versions of gcc.

No functional change.

Resolves #237

9 years agoImproved King Safety values
NicklasPersson [Mon, 2 Feb 2015 20:00:52 +0000 (04:00 +0800)]
Improved King Safety values

From an SPSA-session on king safety.

STC:
ELO: 3.21 +-2.1 (95%) LOS: 99.8%
Total: 40000 W: 8181 L: 7812 D: 24007

LTC:
LLR: 2.95 (-2.94,2.94) [0.00,4.00]
Total: 47765 W: 8091 L: 7785 D: 31889

Bench: 8589262

Resolves #241

9 years agoUse move assignment in movegen.h
Marco Costalba [Sun, 1 Feb 2015 15:32:21 +0000 (16:32 +0100)]
Use move assignment in movegen.h

No functional change and same speed (tested with perft)

9 years agoAllow to assign a Move to an ExtMove
Marco Costalba [Sun, 1 Feb 2015 12:29:27 +0000 (13:29 +0100)]
Allow to assign a Move to an ExtMove

After defining ExtMove::operator Move(), this is a
natural extension.

No fnctional change.

9 years agoDelay checking for duplicated killer moves
Marco Costalba [Sun, 1 Feb 2015 12:08:14 +0000 (13:08 +0100)]
Delay checking for duplicated killer moves

Follow the usual approach to delay computation
as far as possible, in case an earlier killer
cut-offs we avoid to do useless work.

This also greatly simplifies the code.

No functional change.

9 years agoSmall tweaks in movepick.cpp
Marco Costalba [Sun, 1 Feb 2015 09:59:01 +0000 (10:59 +0100)]
Small tweaks in movepick.cpp

No functional change.

9 years agoSilence a warning under MSVC
Marco Costalba [Sun, 1 Feb 2015 09:40:22 +0000 (10:40 +0100)]
Silence a warning under MSVC

warning C4100: 'ci' : unreferenced formal parameter

It is a silly and wrong one, but just silent it.

No functional change.

9 years agoMore readable score<CAPTURES>()
Marco Costalba [Sat, 31 Jan 2015 19:13:38 +0000 (20:13 +0100)]
More readable score<CAPTURES>()

No functional change.

9 years agoUse C++11 loops in MovePicker
Marco Costalba [Sat, 31 Jan 2015 18:53:19 +0000 (19:53 +0100)]
Use C++11 loops in MovePicker

No functional change.

9 years agoImplicit conversion from ExtMove to Move
Marco Costalba [Sat, 31 Jan 2015 17:39:51 +0000 (18:39 +0100)]
Implicit conversion from ExtMove to Move

Verified with perft there is no speed regression,
and code is simpler. It is also conceptually correct
becuase an extended move is just a move that happens
to have also a score.

No functional change.

9 years agoAnother small tweak to skills
Marco Costalba [Sat, 31 Jan 2015 12:22:06 +0000 (13:22 +0100)]
Another small tweak to skills

No functional change.

9 years agoSync with master
Marco Costalba [Sat, 31 Jan 2015 12:04:15 +0000 (13:04 +0100)]
Sync with master

bench: 7374604

9 years agoUse C++ loops in insert_pv_in_tt
Marco Costalba [Sat, 31 Jan 2015 11:31:00 +0000 (12:31 +0100)]
Use C++ loops in insert_pv_in_tt

Also small tweak to extract_ponder_from_tt

No functional change.

9 years agoMove uci_pv under UCI namespace
Marco Costalba [Sat, 31 Jan 2015 10:54:25 +0000 (11:54 +0100)]
Move uci_pv under UCI namespace

That's the correct place.

No functional change.

9 years agoConvert Reductions[] from int8_t to Depth
Marco Costalba [Sat, 31 Jan 2015 09:43:47 +0000 (10:43 +0100)]
Convert Reductions[] from int8_t to Depth

This is the type anyhow. Assorted cleanup while there.

No functional change.

9 years agoFix a MSVC warning
Marco Costalba [Sat, 31 Jan 2015 09:19:00 +0000 (10:19 +0100)]
Fix a MSVC warning

warning C4805: '|' : unsafe mix of type 'Bitboard' and type 'bool' in operation

No functional change.

9 years agoRessurrect hashfull patch
Jean-Francois Romang [Sun, 25 Jan 2015 07:57:51 +0000 (08:57 +0100)]
Ressurrect hashfull patch

This is an old patch from Jean-Francois Romang to send
UCI hashfull info to the GUI:
https://github.com/mcostalba/Stockfish/pull/60/files

It was wrongly judged as a slowdown, but it takes much
less than 1 ms to run, indeed on my core i5 2.6Ghz it
takes about 2 microsecs to run!

Regression test is good:

STC
LLR: 2.96 (-2.94,2.94) [-3.00,1.00]
Total: 7352 W: 1548 L: 1401 D: 4403

LTC
LLR: 2.96 (-2.94,2.94) [-3.00,1.00]
Total: 61432 W: 10307 L: 10251 D: 40874

I have set the name of the author to the original
one.

No functional change.

9 years agoSync with master
Marco Costalba [Fri, 30 Jan 2015 16:58:18 +0000 (17:58 +0100)]
Sync with master

bench: 7374604

9 years agoSimplify skill level and reduce ELO
Marco Costalba [Sun, 25 Jan 2015 18:22:43 +0000 (19:22 +0100)]
Simplify skill level and reduce ELO

This patch has two positive effects:

- Retire a hackish formula and leave
  just a natural, simple and plain one.

- Reduce strenght at very low level, but
  don't impact medium/high levels.

Actually even at level 0, SF is still too
strong for many beginners (this was reported
many times for instance on Droidfish user
comments on Google Play).

Test on fishtest shows that ELO drop is around
170 ELO at level 0 (good!), 130 ELO at level 1
and smoothly reduces (as expected) until level
10 where the drop is just of 8 ELO.

No functional change.

9 years agoSimplify backward pawn definition
Alain SAVARD [Mon, 26 Jan 2015 16:05:53 +0000 (11:05 -0500)]
Simplify backward pawn definition

Make use of 'lever' attribute

No functional change

Resolves #234

9 years agoKing safety tuning with values obtained by SPSA.
NicklasPersson [Wed, 28 Jan 2015 21:00:09 +0000 (21:00 +0000)]
King safety tuning with values obtained by SPSA.

Part I:

LTC:

LLR: 2.96 (-2.94,2.94) [0.00,4.00]
Total: 11529 W: 2075 L: 1882 D: 7572

Part II:

LTC:

ELO: 2.07 +-2.1 (95%) LOS: 97.3%
Total: 34859 W: 5967 L: 5759 D: 23133

Bench: 7374604

Resolves #228

9 years agoRestore development version
Joona Kiiski [Wed, 28 Jan 2015 20:53:50 +0000 (20:53 +0000)]
Restore development version

No functional change

9 years agoStockfish 6
Joona Kiiski [Tue, 27 Jan 2015 20:27:38 +0000 (20:27 +0000)]
Stockfish 6

Stockfish bench signature is: 8918745

9 years agoStockfish 6 Release Candidate 3
Joona Kiiski [Sun, 25 Jan 2015 22:03:57 +0000 (22:03 +0000)]
Stockfish 6 Release Candidate 3

- Fix a skill level problem: Don't allow move pruning at root node
- Revert "Fix profile build for gcc on Mac OSX". Results for a faster binary in x86-64.
- Fix a MSVC warning

Bench: 8918745

9 years agoFix a skill level problem: Don't allow move pruning at root node
Stefan Geschwentner [Sat, 24 Jan 2015 21:05:06 +0000 (22:05 +0100)]
Fix a skill level problem: Don't allow move pruning at root node

Bench: 8918745

Resolves #231

9 years agoRevert "Fix profile build for gcc on Mac OSX"
Joona Kiiski [Sun, 25 Jan 2015 21:46:02 +0000 (21:46 +0000)]
Revert "Fix profile build for gcc on Mac OSX"

Seems to be a performance regression for standard build.

For SF6 people compiling on Mac OSX using profile-build option
just need to make necessary adjustments manually...

No functional change

Resolves #223

9 years agoRe-arrange Skill struct
Marco Costalba [Sun, 25 Jan 2015 10:07:43 +0000 (11:07 +0100)]
Re-arrange Skill struct

Instead of swapping sub-optimal move in Skill
d'tor, make it explicitly at the end of the search.

Also streamline and clarify relation with multiPV
and pass it directly instead of relying on the hacky
'candidates' member.

No functional change.

9 years agoFix a MSVC warning at W4
Marco Costalba [Mon, 19 Jan 2015 07:11:43 +0000 (08:11 +0100)]
Fix a MSVC warning at W4

Warning is C4512 (assignment operator could not be generated)

Now, apart the foreign syzygy code, everything compiles
without warnings at warning level 4.

Backported from C++11 branch.

No functional change.

9 years agoStockfish 6 Release Candidate 2
Joona Kiiski [Sat, 24 Jan 2015 19:38:59 +0000 (19:38 +0000)]
Stockfish 6 Release Candidate 2

- Fix a compilation issue related to BMI2 PEXT instruction
- Retrieve a ponder move from TT if PV is only one move long

Bench: 8080602

No functional change

9 years agoDon't use _pext_u64() directly
Marco Costalba [Tue, 20 Jan 2015 21:17:22 +0000 (22:17 +0100)]
Don't use _pext_u64() directly

This intrinsic to call BMI2 PEXT instruction is
defined in immintrin.h. This header should be
included only when USE_PEXT is defined, otherwise
we define _pext_u64 as 0 forcing a nop.

But under some mingw platforms, even if we don't
include the header, immintrin.h gets included
anyhow through an include chain that starts with
STL <algorithm> header. So we end up both defining
_pext_u64 function and at the same time defining
_pext_u64 as 0 leading to a compile error.

The correct solution is of not using _pext_u64 directly.

This patch fixes a compile error with some mingw64
package when compiling with x86-64.

No functional change.

Resolves #222

9 years agoTry hard to retrieve a ponder move
Marco Costalba [Tue, 20 Jan 2015 08:13:30 +0000 (09:13 +0100)]
Try hard to retrieve a ponder move

In case we stop the search during a fail-high
it is possible we return to GUI without a ponder
move. This patch try harder to find a ponder move
retrieving it from TT. This is important in games
played with 'ponder on'.

bench: 8080602

Resolves #221

9 years agoAdditional work in bitbases
Marco Costalba [Sat, 24 Jan 2015 07:51:53 +0000 (08:51 +0100)]
Additional work in bitbases

Verified the generated bitbases are unchanged.

No functional change.

9 years agoRearrange bitbases C++11 way
Marco Costalba [Thu, 22 Jan 2015 10:05:31 +0000 (11:05 +0100)]
Rearrange bitbases C++11 way

No functional change.

9 years agoDocument how to enable PEXT with MSVC
Marco Costalba [Wed, 21 Jan 2015 18:53:26 +0000 (19:53 +0100)]
Document how to enable PEXT with MSVC

When not using Makefile, e.g. with MSVC, if hardware
supports BMI2 instructions, then USE_PEXT should be
added in project configuration to enable pext support.

No functional change.

9 years agoRearrange Endgames
Marco Costalba [Wed, 21 Jan 2015 16:35:53 +0000 (17:35 +0100)]
Rearrange Endgames

Remove references to EndgameBase and use instead
Value and ScaleFactor as template parameters of
the endgames maps.

No functional change.

9 years agoExplicitly defaulted and deleted members
Marco Costalba [Wed, 21 Jan 2015 12:18:19 +0000 (13:18 +0100)]
Explicitly defaulted and deleted members

Better than a bit obscure implicit ones.

No functional change.

9 years agoFun with lambdas
Marco Costalba [Wed, 21 Jan 2015 10:33:53 +0000 (11:33 +0100)]
Fun with lambdas

Use lambda functions instead of has_positive_value()
and toggle_case()

No functional change.

9 years agoDon't use _pext_u64() directly
Marco Costalba [Tue, 20 Jan 2015 21:17:22 +0000 (22:17 +0100)]
Don't use _pext_u64() directly

This intrinsic to call BMI2 PEXT instruction is
defined in immintrin.h. This header should be
included only when USE_PEXT is defined, otherwise
we define _pext_u64 as 0 forcing a nop.

But under some mingw platforms, even if we don't
include the header, immintrin.h gets included
anyhow through an include chain that starts with
STL <algorithm> header. So we end up both defining
_pext_u64 function and at the same time defining
_pext_u64 as 0 leading to a compile error.

The correct solution is of not using _pext_u64 directly.

This patch fixes a compile error with some mingw64
package when compiling with x86-64.

No functional change.

9 years agoFix a MSVC warning at W4
Marco Costalba [Mon, 19 Jan 2015 07:11:43 +0000 (08:11 +0100)]
Fix a MSVC warning at W4

Warning is C4512 (assignment operator could not be generated)

Now, apart the foreign syzygy code, everything compiles
without warnings at warning level 4.

No functional change.

9 years agoStockfish 6 Release Candidate 1
Joona Kiiski [Sat, 17 Jan 2015 23:19:18 +0000 (23:19 +0000)]
Stockfish 6 Release Candidate 1

Bench: 8080602

No functional change

Resolves #218

9 years agoFix profile build for gcc on Mac OSX
Joona Kiiski [Sun, 18 Jan 2015 09:04:49 +0000 (09:04 +0000)]
Fix profile build for gcc on Mac OSX

Switch back to using -fprofile-generate and
-fprofile-use flags

No functional change

Resolves #219
Resolves #210

9 years agoDon't print fail-high or fail-lows in MultiPV mode
Joona Kiiski [Sat, 17 Jan 2015 23:01:10 +0000 (23:01 +0000)]
Don't print fail-high or fail-lows in MultiPV mode

Supposed to give a better user experience when using MultiPV mode

No functional change

Resolves #217

9 years agoFix compile error with MSVC 2013
Marco Costalba [Sun, 18 Jan 2015 14:14:05 +0000 (15:14 +0100)]
Fix compile error with MSVC 2013

Without this std::min chokes with windows 'min' macro.

No functional change.

9 years agoFun with initializer lists in UCI::square
Marco Costalba [Sun, 18 Jan 2015 10:04:51 +0000 (11:04 +0100)]
Fun with initializer lists in UCI::square

No functional change.

9 years agoFix a coverity scan warning
Marco Costalba [Sun, 18 Jan 2015 09:41:56 +0000 (10:41 +0100)]
Fix a coverity scan warning

Coverity scan warns about uninitialized 'sf' argument when
calling probe(). Actually it is a false positive because
argument is passed by reference and assigned inside
probe(). Nevertheless it is a hint that fucntion signature
is a bit tricky, so rewrite it in a more conventional way,
assigning 'sf' from probe() return value.

No functional change.

9 years agoAdd syzygy support
Marco Costalba [Sun, 18 Jan 2015 07:05:05 +0000 (08:05 +0100)]
Add syzygy support

bench: 8080602

9 years agoImport C++11 branch
Marco Costalba [Sun, 18 Jan 2015 07:00:50 +0000 (08:00 +0100)]
Import C++11 branch

Import C++11 branch from:

https://github.com/mcostalba/Stockfish/tree/c++11

The version imported is teh last one as of today:
https://github.com/mcostalba/Stockfish/commit/6670e93e50a7a4e739ac2ac8b6026ffa3a12150a

Branch is fully equivalent with master but syzygy
tablebases that are missing (but will be added with
next commit).

bench: 8080602

9 years agoFix syzygy warnings with Intel compiler
Marco Costalba [Sat, 17 Jan 2015 09:12:02 +0000 (10:12 +0100)]
Fix syzygy warnings with Intel compiler

Quick hack, a better job would require to
first move all syzygy code up to SF standard.

No functional change.

9 years agoFix some missing rename from previous patch
Marco Costalba [Sat, 17 Jan 2015 21:15:15 +0000 (22:15 +0100)]
Fix some missing rename from previous patch

No functional change.

9 years agoFix a possible overflow in TT resize
Marco Costalba [Sat, 17 Jan 2015 08:04:25 +0000 (09:04 +0100)]
Fix a possible overflow in TT resize

On platforms where size_t is 32 bit, we
can have an overflow in this expression:

(mbSize * 1024 * 1024)

Fix it setting max hash size of 2GB on platforms
where size_t is 32 bit.

A small rename while there: now struct Cluster
is definied inside class TranspositionTable so
we should drop the redundant TT prefix.

No functional change.

9 years agoSimplify and optimize value extractors
mstembera [Fri, 16 Jan 2015 19:03:49 +0000 (19:03 +0000)]
Simplify and optimize value extractors

Speed up results by Joona:

gcc-4.7 (1.5%)
gcc-4.8 (0.5%)
gcc-4.9 (1.0%)

Speed up results by mstembera:

gcc 474
p-value: 0.719

gcc 482
p-value: 1

gcc 492
p-value: 0.859

No functional change

Resolves #211

9 years agoEnable futility pruning for PV nodes in qsearch
lucasart [Wed, 14 Jan 2015 20:18:41 +0000 (20:18 +0000)]
Enable futility pruning for PV nodes in qsearch

STC:

LLR: 4.20 (-2.94,2.94) [-3.00,1.00]
Total: 85573 W: 17195 L: 17125 D: 51253

LTC:

LLR: 2.94 (-2.94,2.94) [-3.00,1.00]
Total: 43385 W: 7298 L: 7214 D: 28873

Bench: 8080602

Resolves #206

9 years agoEnable Futility pruning in PV nodes
Stefan Geschwentner [Wed, 14 Jan 2015 20:11:33 +0000 (20:11 +0000)]
Enable Futility pruning in PV nodes

STC:

LLR: 2.96 (-2.94,2.94) [-3.00,1.00]
Total: 21553 W: 4342 L: 4221 D: 12990

LTC:

LLR: 2.96 (-2.94,2.94) [-3.00,1.00]
Total: 7675 W: 1351 L: 1209 D: 5115

Bench: 8668014

Resolves #205

9 years agoUse VALUE_ZERO instead of 0 when comparing with Value
hxim [Tue, 13 Jan 2015 21:07:18 +0000 (21:07 +0000)]
Use VALUE_ZERO instead of 0 when comparing with Value

This is the correct practice.

No functional change

Resolves #208

9 years agoAssorted headers cleanup
Marco Costalba [Fri, 9 Jan 2015 11:35:44 +0000 (12:35 +0100)]
Assorted headers cleanup

Mostly comments fixing and other small things.

No functional change.

9 years agoFix a crash of syzygy on Android
Marco Costalba [Sun, 11 Jan 2015 07:31:21 +0000 (08:31 +0100)]
Fix a crash of syzygy on Android

On Android-ARM current TB code crashes at
random times even in single thread mode.

Reported, debugged, fixed and verified
by Peter Osterlund.

No functional change.

Resolves #201

9 years agoHigher movetime resolution for benchmarks
Stefano80 [Sun, 11 Jan 2015 20:02:41 +0000 (20:02 +0000)]
Higher movetime resolution for benchmarks

Use a millisecond movetime precision for benchmarks

No functional change

Resolves #198

9 years agoFix compile for Android 5
Marco Costalba [Sat, 10 Jan 2015 15:14:37 +0000 (16:14 +0100)]
Fix compile for Android 5

Android 5 can only run position independent executables.

Note that this breaks Android 4.0 and earlier.

See here for more info:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24818902/running-a-native-library-on-android-l-error-only-position-independent-executab

Thanks to Peter Osterlund for the support.

No functional change

9 years agoUpdate copyright year
Marco Costalba [Sat, 10 Jan 2015 10:43:28 +0000 (11:43 +0100)]
Update copyright year

No functional change.

9 years agoAssorted formatting and comment tweaks in position.h
Marco Costalba [Wed, 7 Jan 2015 08:09:41 +0000 (09:09 +0100)]
Assorted formatting and comment tweaks in position.h

No functional change.

9 years agoTune null search reduction
lucasart [Mon, 5 Jan 2015 22:09:12 +0000 (22:09 +0000)]
Tune null search reduction

STC

LLR: 2.96 (-2.94,2.94) [-0.50,4.50]
Total: 107289 W: 21851 L: 21325 D: 64113

LTC

LLR: 2.96 (-2.94,2.94) [0.00,5.00]
Total: 83837 W: 14378 L: 13916 D: 55543

Bench: 7604776

Resolves #194

9 years agoRetire one implementation of pop_lsb()
Marco Costalba [Sat, 3 Jan 2015 15:39:17 +0000 (16:39 +0100)]
Retire one implementation of pop_lsb()

We have two implementations that are equivalent,
so retire one.

Plus usual tidy up of comments and code reshuffle.

No functional change.

9 years agoRemove a useless optimization
lucasart [Sat, 3 Jan 2015 11:29:00 +0000 (19:29 +0800)]
Remove a useless optimization

This optimization is aimed at old hardware only (withouth popcount), and even on
non popcount compile (ARCH=x86-64), it provides no mesurable speedup:

stat        test     master     diff
mean   2,341,779  2,354,699  -12,920
stdev     12,910     14,770   18,150

speedup      -0.55%
P(speedup>0)  23.8%

No functional change.

Resolves #187

9 years agoSmoother king safety
Joona Kiiski [Sat, 3 Jan 2015 20:34:20 +0000 (20:34 +0000)]
Smoother king safety

STC:

LLR: 4.03 (-2.94,2.94) [-1.50,4.50]
Total: 35707 W: 7352 L: 7106 D: 21249

LTC:

LLR: 2.95 (-2.94,2.94) [0.00,4.00]
Total: 24563 W: 4330 L: 4095 D: 16138

Bench: 8411409

Resolves #190

9 years agoAssorted work in uci.cpp
Marco Costalba [Sat, 3 Jan 2015 09:51:38 +0000 (10:51 +0100)]
Assorted work in uci.cpp

- Change UCI::value() signature

This function should only return the value,
lowerbound and upperbound info is up to the
caller because it requires external knowledge,
out of the scope of this little helper.

- Retire 'key' command

It is not an UCI command and is absolutely
useless: never used.

- Comments fixing and other trivia

No functional change.

9 years agoFix a silly warning with Intel compiler
Marco Costalba [Sat, 3 Jan 2015 09:16:10 +0000 (10:16 +0100)]
Fix a silly warning with Intel compiler

Intel compiler cries for an explicit cast

warning #2259: non-pointer conversion from "double" to "int"
may lose significant bits

No functional change.

9 years agoFix comments in thread.cpp
Marco Costalba [Thu, 1 Jan 2015 09:46:31 +0000 (10:46 +0100)]
Fix comments in thread.cpp

And reshuffle a bit the functions to place
them in a consistent order.

To be on the safe side, patch has been
validated for no regression/crashes with
a small 8K games test with 3 threads:

ELO: 3.98 +-4.4 (95%) LOS: 96.3%
Total: 8388 W: 1500 L: 1404 D: 5484

No functional change.

9 years agoLet material probing to access per-thread table
Marco Costalba [Tue, 30 Dec 2014 09:31:50 +0000 (10:31 +0100)]
Let material probing to access per-thread table

It is up to material (and pawn) table look up
code to know where the per-thread tables are,
so change API to reflect this.

Also some comment fixing while there

No functional change.

9 years agoDisable the default copy constructor for Position class
Matthew Lai [Fri, 2 Jan 2015 20:18:49 +0000 (20:18 +0000)]
Disable the default copy constructor for Position class

No functional change

Resolved #183

9 years agoBig King Safety tuning
Stefan Geschwentner [Fri, 2 Jan 2015 19:31:33 +0000 (03:31 +0800)]
Big King Safety tuning

All king safety related terms (shelterweakness, stormdanger,
attackunits, ..) was tuned together. Additionally for attack units a
finer granularity (factor 4) is used.

STC
ELO: 9.22 +-3.1 (95%) LOS: 100.0%
Total: 19514 W: 4340 L: 3822 D: 11352

LTC
LLR: 2.96 (-2.94,2.94) [0.00,6.00]
Total: 6399 W: 1192 L: 1056 D: 4151

Bench: 8224782

Resolves #184

9 years agoRetire Material::space_weight()
Marco Costalba [Wed, 31 Dec 2014 09:41:20 +0000 (10:41 +0100)]
Retire Material::space_weight()

Move all in evaluation.

Simplify the code and concentrate in a single place
all the logic behind space evaluation, making it much
more clear.

Verified also at STC it does not regress due to a possible
slow down:

LLR: 3.91 (-2.94,2.94) [-3.00,1.00]
Total: 65744 W: 13285 L: 13194 D: 39265

No functional change.

9 years agoAdditional tidy up in timeman.cpp
Marco Costalba [Sun, 28 Dec 2014 11:34:01 +0000 (12:34 +0100)]
Additional tidy up in timeman.cpp

Fixed some comments and moved/renamed some
variables.

No functional change.

9 years agoUse score and value consistently
Marco Costalba [Sat, 27 Dec 2014 09:47:21 +0000 (10:47 +0100)]
Use score and value consistently

And other assorted small fixing, code style
tweaks and reshuffles in evaluate.cpp

No functional change.

9 years agoRemove some comments in timeman.cpp
Arjun Temurnikar [Wed, 24 Dec 2014 03:50:00 +0000 (11:50 +0800)]
Remove some comments in timeman.cpp

Commenst are obsolete now, an updated description
would be quite obscure, so better let the code
to talk and remove them all together.

No functional change.

9 years agoReformat promotion generation
Marco Costalba [Wed, 24 Dec 2014 10:36:04 +0000 (11:36 +0100)]
Reformat promotion generation

Use the same template of other pawns moves generation,
make the code more uniform, simplify generate_promotions
that has now been renamed.

No functional change (verified also with perft).

9 years agoPrefer names to numbers in storm code
Marco Costalba [Sun, 21 Dec 2014 09:52:34 +0000 (10:52 +0100)]
Prefer names to numbers in storm code

Also replaces some tabs with spaces and
change StormDanger order to reflect
ShelterWeakness one.

No functional change.

9 years agoUse "rm -f" instead of "rm" for gcc profiling hack in Makefile
Joona Kiiski [Sat, 20 Dec 2014 08:51:53 +0000 (08:51 +0000)]
Use "rm -f" instead of "rm" for gcc profiling hack in Makefile

In some UNIX systems "rm" prompts user for confirmation.
However "rm -f" is always a guaranteed forced deletion.

Also move gcc profiling hack under the correct target

No Functional change

Resolves #168

9 years agoBig King Safety tuning
Stefan Geschwentner [Sat, 20 Dec 2014 17:49:56 +0000 (01:49 +0800)]
Big King Safety tuning

ShelterWeakness and Stormdanger array are now indexed additionally by
file pair (a/h,b/g,c/f,d/e). The special case of king blocking a pawn
is incorporated in the StormDanger array.  Finally the 93 parameters
are tuned by SPSA on LTC.

STC
ELO: 3.46 +-2.2 (95%) LOS: 99.9%
Total: 40000 W: 8275 L: 7877 D: 23848

LTC
LLR: 2.96 (-2.94,2.94) [0.00,6.00]
Total: 10311 W: 1876 L: 1721 D: 6714

Bench: 9498821

Resolves #163

9 years agoDon't account for Tempo in specialized endgames
Marco Costalba [Tue, 16 Dec 2014 07:25:54 +0000 (08:25 +0100)]
Don't account for Tempo in specialized endgames

The evaluation is already done by the specialized
function, don't need to add something elese later.

With this patch following positions are evaluated
correctly as draws:

8/6p1/1Pkp1p1p/2nNn2P/2P1K1P1/8/8/3B4 w - - 7
8/1k4p1/1P1p1p1p/3NnK1P/2P3P1/1n6/4B3/8 w - -

Verified it not regress with an STC test:
LLR: 3.15 (-2.94,2.94) [-3.00,1.00]
Total: 49812 W: 10095 L: 10016 D: 29701

Reported by Arjun Temurnikar.

bench: 8289983

9 years agoChange profile-build options to produce 1% to 2% faster executables.
mstembera [Thu, 18 Dec 2014 19:56:00 +0000 (03:56 +0800)]
Change profile-build options to produce 1% to 2% faster executables.

The "@rm ucioption.gc*" line is necessary to avoid a gcc 4.7.x bug.
Confirmed for gcc 4.7.4, 4.8.1, and 4.9.1
Suggested by Kiran Panditrao on fishcooking forum.
https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/fishcooking/AY8gN53nG18

No functional change.

Resolves #160

9 years agoImprove comments in UCI
Marco Costalba [Sun, 14 Dec 2014 08:31:13 +0000 (09:31 +0100)]
Improve comments in UCI

And simplify naming while there.

No functional change.

Resolves #159

9 years agoCoding style in TT code
Marco Costalba [Sat, 13 Dec 2014 08:27:39 +0000 (09:27 +0100)]
Coding style in TT code

In particular seems more natural to return
bool and TTEntry on the same line, actually
we should pass and return them as a pair,
but due to limitations of C++ and not wanting
to use std::pair this can be an acceptable
compromise.

No functional change.

Resolves #157

9 years agoFix compile for some versions of mingw
Gary Linscott [Sun, 14 Dec 2014 19:45:43 +0000 (14:45 -0500)]
Fix compile for some versions of mingw

The bswap intrinsics are specific to the compiler, not the
host platform.

No functional change.

Resolves #155

9 years agoAvoid searching TT twice for the same key/position during probe() and store().
mstembera [Sat, 13 Dec 2014 07:16:35 +0000 (07:16 +0000)]
Avoid searching TT twice for the same key/position during probe() and store().

Just keep the pointer and remove code from tt.cpp

STC
LLR: 2.96 (-2.94,2.94) [-1.50,4.50]
Total: 13620 W: 2810 L: 2665 D: 8145

LTC
LLR: 2.97 (-2.94,2.94) [0.00,6.00]
Total: 13021 W: 2238 L: 2073 D: 8710STC http://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/548436860ebc59331739b90c

STC 4MB
ELO: 2.41 +-2.2 (95%) LOS: 98.6%
Total: 40000 W: 8175 L: 7897 D: 23928

LTC 16MB
ELO: 1.78 +-2.0 (95%) LOS: 96.1%
Total: 39683 W: 6763 L: 6560 D: 26360

Resolves #151

Bench: 8116521

9 years agoOnly use _ReadWriteBarrier on MSVC
Gary Linscott [Thu, 11 Dec 2014 19:56:24 +0000 (14:56 -0500)]
Only use _ReadWriteBarrier on MSVC

It was causing compile errors when cross-compiling using mingw.

No functional change.

9 years agoHalve StormDanger bonus for blocked pawn on A/H file
joergoster [Thu, 11 Dec 2014 18:06:03 +0000 (13:06 -0500)]
Halve StormDanger bonus for blocked pawn on A/H file

STC
LLR: 2.95 (-2.94,2.94) [-1.50,4.50]
Total: 3410 W: 758 L: 641 D: 2011

LTC
LLR: 2.95 (-2.94,2.94) [0.00,6.00]
Total: 33225 W: 5708 L: 5445 D: 22072

Bench: 8465811

Resolves #153

9 years agoMSVC compiling fixes
Gary Linscott [Thu, 11 Dec 2014 18:03:44 +0000 (13:03 -0500)]
MSVC compiling fixes

No functional change.

Resolves #150

9 years agoFix profile build for syzygy
Joona Kiiski [Sun, 7 Dec 2014 19:54:23 +0000 (19:54 +0000)]
Fix profile build for syzygy

Touch source files under syzygy directory to force recompilation
after collecting profile data.

No functional change

Resolves #149

9 years agoRetire 'os' flag from Makefile
Joona Kiiski [Sun, 7 Dec 2014 09:45:36 +0000 (09:45 +0000)]
Retire 'os' flag from Makefile

Appears to be unused

No functional change

Resolves #147

9 years agoAssorted nitpicking code-style
Marco Costalba [Mon, 8 Dec 2014 07:23:09 +0000 (08:23 +0100)]
Assorted nitpicking code-style

No functional change.

9 years agoClarify when forcing the moves loop
Marco Costalba [Mon, 8 Dec 2014 08:46:21 +0000 (09:46 +0100)]
Clarify when forcing the moves loop

In some cases we want to go direcly to the moves loop
without checking for early return. The patch make this
logic more clear and consistent.

Tested for no regression, passed STC
LLR: 2.96 (-2.94,2.94) [-3.00,1.00]
Total: 25282 W: 5136 L: 5022 D: 15124

and LTC
LLR: 2.95 (-2.94,2.94) [-3.00,1.00]
Total: 72007 W: 12133 L: 12095 D: 47779

bench: 9316798

9 years agoSimpler PRNG and faster magics search
Ernesto Gatti [Mon, 8 Dec 2014 00:10:57 +0000 (08:10 +0800)]
Simpler PRNG and faster magics search

This patch replaces RKISS by a simpler and faster PRNG, xorshift64* proposed
by S. Vigna (2014). It is extremely simple, has a large enough period for
Stockfish's needs (2^64), requires no warming-up (allowing such code to be
removed), and offers slightly better randomness than MT19937.

Paper: http://xorshift.di.unimi.it/
Reference source code (public domain):
http://xorshift.di.unimi.it/xorshift64star.c

The patch also simplifies how init_magics() searches for magics:

- Old logic: seed the PRNG always with the same seed,
  then use optimized bit rotations to tailor the RNG sequence per rank.

- New logic: seed the PRNG with an optimized seed per rank.

This has two advantages:
1. Less code and less computation to perform during magics search (not ROTL).
2. More choices for random sequence tuning. The old logic only let us choose
from 4096 bit rotation pairs. With the new one, we can look for the best seeds
among 2^64 values. Indeed, the set of seeds[][] provided in the patch reduces
the effort needed to find the magics:

64-bit SF:
Old logic -> 5,783,789 rand64() calls needed to find the magics
New logic -> 4,420,086 calls

32-bit SF:
Old logic -> 2,175,518 calls
New logic -> 1,895,955 calls

In the 64-bit case, init_magics() take 25 ms less to complete (Intel Core i5).

Finally, when playing with strength handicap, non-determinism is achieved
by setting the seed of the static RNG only once. Afterwards, there is no need
to skip output values.

The bench only changes because the Zobrist keys are now different (since they
are random numbers straight out of the PRNG).

The RNG seed has been carefully chosen so that the
resulting Zobrist keys are particularly well-behaved:

1. All triplets of XORed keys are unique, implying that it
   would take at least 7 keys to find a 64-bit collision
   (test suggested by ceebo)

2. All pairs of XORed keys are unique modulo 2^32

3. The cardinality of { (key1 ^ key2) >> 48 } is as close
   as possible to the maximum (65536)

Point 2 aims at ensuring a good distribution among the bits
that determine an TT entry's cluster, likewise point 3
among the bits that form the TT entry's key16 inside a
cluster.

Details:

     Bitset   card(key1^key2)
     ------   ---------------
RKISS
     key16     64894   = 99.020% of theoretical maximum
     low18    180117   = 99.293%
     low32    305362   = 99.997%

Xorshift64*, old seed
     key16     64918   = 99.057%
     low18    179994   = 99.225%
     low32    305350   = 99.993%

Xorshift64*, new seed
     key16     65027   = 99.223%
     low18    181118   = 99.845%
     low32    305371   = 100.000%

Bench: 9324905

Resolves #148

9 years agoAdd some tablebase positions to bench
Gary Linscott [Sun, 7 Dec 2014 23:55:53 +0000 (07:55 +0800)]
Add some tablebase positions to bench

This makes it easier to check for regressions in the tablebase code.

Bench: 9489202
5-man bench: 8943906

Resolves #145

9 years agoRename some variables for more clarity.
hxim [Sun, 7 Dec 2014 23:53:33 +0000 (07:53 +0800)]
Rename some variables for more clarity.

No functional change.

Resolves #131

9 years agoExplicitly pass RootMoves to TB probes
Marco Costalba [Sun, 30 Nov 2014 13:59:09 +0000 (14:59 +0100)]
Explicitly pass RootMoves to TB probes

Currently Search::RootMoves is accessed and even
modified by TB probing functions in a hidden
and sneaky way.

This is bad practice and makes the code tricky.
Instead explicily pass the vector as function
argument so to clarify that the vector is modified
inside the functions.

No functional change.

9 years agoMove TB stuff under Tablebases namespace
Marco Costalba [Sun, 30 Nov 2014 11:14:14 +0000 (12:14 +0100)]
Move TB stuff under Tablebases namespace

Simplified also some logic while there.

TBLargest needs renaming too, but itis for
a future patch because touches also syzygy
directory stuff.

No functional change.

9 years agoRefactor syzygy code in search
Marco Costalba [Sun, 30 Nov 2014 07:38:46 +0000 (08:38 +0100)]
Refactor syzygy code in search

Move to SF coding style.

Also skip calculating piece count in search()
when TB are not found (!TBCardinality)

No functional change.

9 years agoRetire support for Haiku installation directory from Makefile
Joona Kiiski [Sun, 30 Nov 2014 21:02:39 +0000 (21:02 +0000)]
Retire support for Haiku installation directory from Makefile

- It is out of the scope of the project.
- It is the responsibility of Haiku package maintainer to
  configure this.

No functional change

Resolves #143