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14 years agoIncrease null reduction at high depths
Marco Costalba [Thu, 31 Dec 2009 10:54:26 +0000 (11:54 +0100)]
Increase null reduction at high depths

Linear rule, less aggressive then Dann's one.

It seems it scales well with depth. We will need to
verify against weaker engine if it keeps the score.

After 999 games at 1+0 on my Dual Core
Mod vs Orig +232 =534 -207  +9 ELO

After 1000 games by Martin Thoresen on his QUAD at 1+0
Mod vs Orig 521/479 52.10%

Functionality Signature: 17655312

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
14 years agoFix a compile error under gcc
Marco Costalba [Mon, 4 Jan 2010 16:17:40 +0000 (17:17 +0100)]
Fix a compile error under gcc

And some warnings on the picky icc.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
14 years agoLast round of search.cpp cleanup
Marco Costalba [Mon, 4 Jan 2010 11:39:13 +0000 (12:39 +0100)]
Last round of search.cpp cleanup

The most interesting thing is a bit of rewrite
and semplification in connected_moves()

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
14 years agoSpace inflate bottom part of search.cpp
Marco Costalba [Sun, 3 Jan 2010 20:30:46 +0000 (21:30 +0100)]
Space inflate bottom part of search.cpp

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
14 years agoRename MaxActiveSplitPoints
Marco Costalba [Sun, 3 Jan 2010 14:35:12 +0000 (15:35 +0100)]
Rename MaxActiveSplitPoints

And move in thread.h togheter with THREAD_MAX

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
14 years agoRetire 'finished' from MovePicker
Marco Costalba [Sun, 3 Jan 2010 12:27:31 +0000 (13:27 +0100)]
Retire 'finished' from MovePicker

It is not useful becasue it is safe to call
get_next_move() multiple times when phase == PH_STOP

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
14 years agoRename SingleReplyExtension in SingleEvasionExtension
Marco Costalba [Sun, 3 Jan 2010 09:19:43 +0000 (10:19 +0100)]
Rename SingleReplyExtension in SingleEvasionExtension

Because that's the correct meaning. Note that also the
corresponding UCI option has been renamed.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
14 years agoSmall cleanup in search.cpp
Marco Costalba [Sun, 3 Jan 2010 09:00:29 +0000 (10:00 +0100)]
Small cleanup in search.cpp

Also clarify some comments.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
14 years agoRetire approximateEval field from SplitPoint
Marco Costalba [Sat, 2 Jan 2010 09:27:36 +0000 (10:27 +0100)]
Retire approximateEval field from SplitPoint

It is not used anymore after the futility pruning
rewrite in a66f31f12.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
14 years agoDouble HistoryMax and reduce aging
Marco Costalba [Thu, 31 Dec 2009 11:44:10 +0000 (12:44 +0100)]
Double HistoryMax and reduce aging

After history accounting rewrite in 1.6, a small
tweak of history parameters seems positive.

Note that these are not to be considered the optimal
values, just a wild guess that proved good.

Finding the optimal values would require a much longer
testing time.

After 967 games at 1+0

Mod vs Orig 240 529 198 +15 ELO

Functionality Signature: 21222553

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
14 years agoFix a little warning under gcc compiler
Marco Costalba [Wed, 30 Dec 2009 10:09:27 +0000 (11:09 +0100)]
Fix a little warning under gcc compiler

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
14 years agoOptimized bitScanReverse32()
Marco Costalba [Tue, 29 Dec 2009 13:43:15 +0000 (14:43 +0100)]
Optimized bitScanReverse32()

Should be a bit faster then previous one.
Hacked by Pascal Georges.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
14 years agoRestore development version
Marco Costalba [Tue, 29 Dec 2009 11:20:16 +0000 (12:20 +0100)]
Restore development version

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
14 years agoStockfish 1.6.2
Marco Costalba [Mon, 28 Dec 2009 17:10:24 +0000 (18:10 +0100)]
Stockfish 1.6.2

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
14 years agoBetter fix for gcc optimization issue
Marco Costalba [Mon, 28 Dec 2009 06:13:12 +0000 (07:13 +0100)]
Better fix for gcc optimization issue

According to the standard, compiler is free to choose
the enum type as long as can keep its data.
Also cast to short and right shift are implementation
defined in case of a signed integer.

Normally all the compilers implement this stuff in
the "usual" way, but gcc with -O3 and -O2 pushes
aggressively the language to its limits to squeeze
even the last bit of speed. And this broke our
not 100% standard conforming code.

The fix is to rewrite the Score enum and the 16 bits
word extracting functions in a way that is 100% standard
compliant and with no speed regression on gcc and also on
the other compilers.

Verified it works on all compilers and with equivalent
functionality.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
14 years agoScore enum should be at least 32 bits
Marco Costalba [Sun, 27 Dec 2009 18:45:19 +0000 (19:45 +0100)]
Score enum should be at least 32 bits

The compiler is allowed to chose the size of an enum variable
based on the values it is expected to store. So force the compiler
to use at least a 32 bit integer type for the Score.

MSVC and Intel do not change, while gcc under -O3 is affected
by this change.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
14 years agoRevert small pop_1st_bit() optimization
Marco Costalba [Sun, 27 Dec 2009 13:05:15 +0000 (14:05 +0100)]
Revert small pop_1st_bit() optimization

We cannot cast a pointer type to an unrelated pointer type.
This is a violation of the strict aliasing rules.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
14 years agoRemove a bogus assert
Marco Costalba [Sun, 27 Dec 2009 12:54:46 +0000 (13:54 +0100)]
Remove a bogus assert

It is not clear why is not true, even in single thread
case, but as a matter of fact it is not!

So remove it.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
14 years agoUse THREAD_MAX instead of hardcoded 8
Marco Costalba [Sun, 27 Dec 2009 12:52:29 +0000 (13:52 +0100)]
Use THREAD_MAX instead of hardcoded 8

This will allow to change THREAD_MAX value in the future.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
14 years agoRestore development version
Marco Costalba [Sun, 27 Dec 2009 07:35:44 +0000 (08:35 +0100)]
Restore development version

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
14 years agoSet maximum hash table size to 2GB
Marco Costalba [Sat, 26 Dec 2009 23:44:08 +0000 (00:44 +0100)]
Set maximum hash table size to 2GB

We cannot allocate more then 2 GB, so let the limit
reflect this.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
14 years agoStockfish 1.6.1
Marco Costalba [Sat, 26 Dec 2009 18:28:03 +0000 (19:28 +0100)]
Stockfish 1.6.1

Workaround a gcc optimization bug.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
14 years agoWorkaround optimization bug in gcc
Marco Costalba [Sat, 26 Dec 2009 18:24:42 +0000 (19:24 +0100)]
Workaround optimization bug in gcc

Unfortunatly we need to slow down to -O1 to be sure
it works always.

Note that sometime it works also with -O2 or even -O3,
but user has to try himself.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
14 years agoFix description of Score enum
Marco Costalba [Sat, 26 Dec 2009 17:16:38 +0000 (18:16 +0100)]
Fix description of Score enum

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
14 years agoFix a typo in ReducedStateInfo
Marco Costalba [Sat, 26 Dec 2009 17:12:59 +0000 (18:12 +0100)]
Fix a typo in ReducedStateInfo

It happened to work by accident because Score and
Value are both integer.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
14 years agoStockfish 1.6
Marco Costalba [Tue, 22 Dec 2009 21:11:10 +0000 (22:11 +0100)]
Stockfish 1.6

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
14 years agoScore definition gives a compile error under gcc
Marco Costalba [Mon, 21 Dec 2009 06:15:53 +0000 (07:15 +0100)]
Score definition gives a compile error under gcc

For enum definitions a parenthesis is required.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
14 years agoSetup Release Candidate 1
Marco Costalba [Sat, 19 Dec 2009 16:00:33 +0000 (17:00 +0100)]
Setup Release Candidate 1

To be used by Jim for testing different compiles settings.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
14 years agoFix a comment in HistoryMax description
Marco Costalba [Sat, 19 Dec 2009 09:43:12 +0000 (10:43 +0100)]
Fix a comment in HistoryMax description

Was obsoleted out some time ago.

Spotted by Justin Blanchard

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
14 years agoFix book name is hard coded as book.bin
Marco Costalba [Fri, 18 Dec 2009 09:11:50 +0000 (10:11 +0100)]
Fix book name is hard coded as book.bin

Instead should be read by the corresponding UCI
option "Book File".

Bug reported and fixed by Justin Blanchard (Arch Linux)

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
14 years agoIn non-PV IID don't call evaluate when in check
Marco Costalba [Tue, 15 Dec 2009 11:07:23 +0000 (12:07 +0100)]
In non-PV IID don't call evaluate when in check

Was a long standing hidden bug from Glaurung times,
triggered only now that we enable IID at non PV nodes.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
14 years agoFix a compile error in debug mode
Marco Costalba [Tue, 15 Dec 2009 10:26:45 +0000 (11:26 +0100)]
Fix a compile error in debug mode

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
14 years agoEnable IID at non-PV nodes
Marco Costalba [Sat, 12 Dec 2009 18:36:40 +0000 (19:36 +0100)]
Enable IID at non-PV nodes

We want to increrase the opportunities
of doing an exclusion search.

After 999 games at 1+0
Mod vs Orig +216 =574 -209 50.35%  503.0/999  +2 ELO

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
14 years agoSynchronize pruning rules in search and sp_search
Joona Kiiski [Thu, 10 Dec 2009 15:24:18 +0000 (17:24 +0200)]
Synchronize pruning rules in search and sp_search

Regression test passed:

Mod - Orig: 365 - 351

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
14 years agoRemove history counters
Marco Costalba [Wed, 9 Dec 2009 13:40:38 +0000 (14:40 +0100)]
Remove history counters

Instead decrement history value on failure.

After 999 games at 1+0

Mod vs Orig  +236 =558 -204 51.60% +11 ELO

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
14 years agoFix overflow risk in split point
Joona Kiiski [Thu, 10 Dec 2009 14:21:06 +0000 (16:21 +0200)]
Fix overflow risk in split point

Sizeof of search stack should be PLY_MAX+2 instead of PLY_MAX.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
14 years agoRe-enable TT.insert_pv()
Joona Kiiski [Tue, 8 Dec 2009 17:19:13 +0000 (19:19 +0200)]
Re-enable TT.insert_pv()

This time make sure that valuable TTentries are not overwritten.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
14 years agoDisable insert_pv
Joona Kiiski [Tue, 8 Dec 2009 17:06:38 +0000 (19:06 +0200)]
Disable insert_pv

This way we avoid overwriting valuable TT entries which
are needed to calculate exclusion search extension for pv.

Mod - Orig: 483 - 410 (+28 elo!)

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
14 years agoSet IncrementalFutilityMargin to 8
Marco Costalba [Tue, 8 Dec 2009 10:16:14 +0000 (11:16 +0100)]
Set IncrementalFutilityMargin to 8

After 999 games we are almost equal (+2 ELO),
but we have a good result against Rybka

Rybka 2.3.2a mp 32-bit vs Mod  254.5 - 242.5 +152/-140/=205 51.21%
Rybka 2.3.2a mp 32-bit vs Orig 259.5 - 236.5 +151/-128/=217 52.32%

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
14 years agoReplace 100 with PLY_MAX in ok_to_use_TT
Joona Kiiski [Wed, 2 Dec 2009 20:08:58 +0000 (22:08 +0200)]
Replace 100 with PLY_MAX in ok_to_use_TT

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
14 years agoAdjust SingleReplyMargin 0x64 -> 0x20
Joona Kiiski [Wed, 2 Dec 2009 18:34:55 +0000 (20:34 +0200)]
Adjust SingleReplyMargin 0x64 -> 0x20

Mod - Orig: 920 - 890 (+6 elo)

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
14 years agoDon't clear hash at the beginning of a new game
Marco Costalba [Tue, 1 Dec 2009 10:56:48 +0000 (11:56 +0100)]
Don't clear hash at the beginning of a new game

After 900 games at 1+0
Mod vs Orig +217 =480 -196 +8 ELO

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
14 years agoTry to prune also when approximateEval < beta
Marco Costalba [Tue, 1 Dec 2009 10:48:28 +0000 (11:48 +0100)]
Try to prune also when approximateEval < beta

Now we always try to filter out moves, we will have
more wasted evaluation calls, but also more pruned
nodes.

After 786 games

Mod vs Orig +196 =413 -177 +8 ELO

Verified also against Rybka it increases score to 50-51%

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
14 years agoDo not crash if we are asked to search mate or stalemate position.
Joona Kiiski [Sat, 28 Nov 2009 18:49:36 +0000 (20:49 +0200)]
Do not crash if we are asked to search mate or stalemate position.

We might be asked to ponder mate or stalemate position.
This being the case, simply wait for stop or ponderhit.
Currently we crash.

UCI specs aren't clear on the issue, but it cost nothing to
add little check.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
14 years agoFix get_option_value() for strings with spaces
Marco Costalba [Sat, 28 Nov 2009 16:31:56 +0000 (17:31 +0100)]
Fix get_option_value() for strings with spaces

Problem is that

istream& operator>> (istream& is, char* str );

according to C++ documentation "Ends extraction when the
next character is either a valid whitespace or a null character,
or if the End-Of-File is reached."

So if the parameter value is a string with spaces the currently
used instruction 'ss >> ret;' copies the chars only up to the first
white space and not the whole string.

Use a specialization of get_option_value() to fix this corner case.

Bug reported by xiaozhi

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
14 years agoRetire FutilityMargins[] array
Marco Costalba [Sat, 28 Nov 2009 10:52:13 +0000 (11:52 +0100)]
Retire FutilityMargins[] array

Now we use a formula to calculate margins on the fly.

Node count has changed because we fixed a leftover when
we still where using FutilityMargins to calculate futilityValue
in the case that we had the evaluation score in TT.

Also small indentation fix.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
14 years agoIncrementalFutilityMargin to 4 and increased pruning
Marco Costalba [Thu, 26 Nov 2009 10:37:21 +0000 (11:37 +0100)]
IncrementalFutilityMargin to 4 and increased pruning

Increase pruning at low depths while tone downa bit at
higher depths (linearize a bit the logaritmic behaviour)

This goes togheter with IncrementalFutilityMargin decreased
to 4 compensate the bigger pruning effect.

Total pruned nodes are more or less the same. We go from 36%
of nodes after prune to 37% with this patch.

After 999 games at 1+0
Mod vs Orig +250 =526 -223 +9 ELO

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
14 years agoDrop OnlyMoveExt PV-condition from 8 plies to 6 plies
Joona Kiiski [Fri, 27 Nov 2009 10:06:55 +0000 (12:06 +0200)]
Drop OnlyMoveExt PV-condition from 8 plies to 6 plies

Orig - Mod: 731 - 750

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
14 years agoUse move not ttMove in exclude search
Marco Costalba [Fri, 27 Nov 2009 14:35:34 +0000 (15:35 +0100)]
Use move not ttMove in exclude search

If we arrive until the exclusion search call then
we know that move == ttMove == tte->move()

But using ttMove in search call while, during excluded search
conditions we have used tte->Move()could be a little bit suboptimal.
On the other side using tte->move() also in search call is a bit ugly
so opt for the third choice that is the most clean becasue from the
conditions the reader easily understands that we are talking of ttMove
and that we ant to exclude the move we are evaluating in that moment.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
14 years agoBetter document previous patch
Marco Costalba [Fri, 27 Nov 2009 10:54:07 +0000 (11:54 +0100)]
Better document previous patch

If tte->move() != MOVE_NONE then tte->move() == ttMove

What could happen is that we have a ttMove without a tte, or,
we have a tte but tte->move() == MOVE_NONE

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
14 years agoFix a possible crash in excluded search condition
Marco Costalba [Thu, 26 Nov 2009 12:44:48 +0000 (13:44 +0100)]
Fix a possible crash in excluded search condition

Due to IID we could have a ttMove and not a tte, or,
even if we have a tte they could belong to different
searches so that the depth and type of tte don't
have the same origin of the ttMove.

To fix this we always use tte entry in excluded search
condition and, after an IID, we reprobe the TT table.

No functional change. Apart from possible crash fix.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
14 years agoDocument why we don't use TT to prune in search_pv()
Marco Costalba [Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:16:51 +0000 (17:16 +0100)]
Document why we don't use TT to prune in search_pv()

From a Joona' s post on talkchess.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
14 years agoRevert last Only move extensions tweaks
Joona Kiiski [Wed, 25 Nov 2009 13:15:47 +0000 (15:15 +0200)]
Revert last Only move extensions tweaks

They gave bad results:

Mod - Orig: 361 - 404

Master is now verified to be functional equivalent with F_63

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
14 years agoSpeed up sorting of non-captures
Marco Costalba [Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:39:47 +0000 (13:39 +0100)]
Speed up sorting of non-captures

Becasue we have a lot of zero scores (around 30% of moves)
it is a good idea to do a couple a presorting loops across
the move list and shuffle the moves a bit so that with a
small effort we end up with 3 groups of moves: positives
scores, zero scores and negative scores.

We have two advantages

1) We don't need to sort zero scores

2) Sort two small groups is faster then sort a single big one

Speed up is of about 2%

Because equal scored moves could be reordered in a different way
this is not a "no functional change" although I have verified
the output list is always correctly sorted.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
14 years agoRewrite messy LSN-code take 2
Marco Costalba [Wed, 25 Nov 2009 12:53:48 +0000 (13:53 +0100)]
Rewrite messy LSN-code take 2

We already reset loseOnTime flag at the beginning of
a new game, so we can simplify a bit the ligic there.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
14 years agoRewrite messy LSN-code
Joona Kiiski [Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:14:12 +0000 (00:14 +0200)]
Rewrite messy LSN-code

* New version is documented and logic should be easier to follow
* Add extra check to not use LSN with x moves / y seconds time control
* New code fixes some rear cases where old code (still) causes program to lose on time at move 1.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
14 years agoRemove RootMoveList::scan_for_easy_move()
Joona Kiiski [Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:49:17 +0000 (23:49 +0200)]
Remove RootMoveList::scan_for_easy_move()

* The function is called only in one place
* It must not be called elsewhere
* The function call easily replaced with simple one line condition

No functional change (tested with usual set + 2000 random positions)

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
14 years agoRemove 2 FIXMEs from search.cpp
Joona Kiiski [Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:43:19 +0000 (00:43 +0200)]
Remove 2 FIXMEs from search.cpp

* First one is without any documentation, code is working just fine,
  so there seems to be nothing that really should be fixed.

* Second one requesting emergency measures on aspiration fail low
  when we are running out of time and we are without good move.
  After very long time, I've come to conclusion that this is
  impossible to fix, so remove request.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
14 years agoDocument and cleanup new effective-single-reply code
Marco Costalba [Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:40:18 +0000 (12:40 +0100)]
Document and cleanup new effective-single-reply code

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
14 years agoAlways extend full ply in PV
Joona Kiiski [Sun, 22 Nov 2009 14:50:44 +0000 (16:50 +0200)]
Always extend full ply in PV

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
14 years agoAdd mild extension in low depths
Joona Kiiski [Sun, 22 Nov 2009 12:58:07 +0000 (14:58 +0200)]
Add mild extension in low depths

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
14 years agoFix currentMove bug
Joona Kiiski [Sat, 21 Nov 2009 15:05:18 +0000 (17:05 +0200)]
Fix currentMove bug

Orig vs Master: +15 elo 887.5 - 812.5 (1700 games, finished) [4CPU]

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
14 years agoOnly move extension based on exclusion search
Joona Kiiski [Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:22:52 +0000 (15:22 +0200)]
Only move extension based on exclusion search

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
14 years agoBase work for exclusion search
Joona Kiiski [Sat, 21 Nov 2009 12:44:50 +0000 (14:44 +0200)]
Base work for exclusion search

No functional change

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
14 years agoTone down a bit futility parameters
Marco Costalba [Sun, 22 Nov 2009 10:11:36 +0000 (11:11 +0100)]
Tone down a bit futility parameters

After 999 games at 1+0

Mod vs Orig +239 =542 -218  +7 ELO

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
14 years agoRemove 4*IncrementalFutilityMargin from futilityValue
Marco Costalba [Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:41:07 +0000 (14:41 +0100)]
Remove 4*IncrementalFutilityMargin from futilityValue

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
14 years agoLogaritmic futility margins
Marco Costalba [Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:58:22 +0000 (15:58 +0100)]
Logaritmic futility margins

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
14 years agoExponential futility margins
Marco Costalba [Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:54:59 +0000 (14:54 +0100)]
Exponential futility margins

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
14 years agoHistory pruning exponential limit
Marco Costalba [Sat, 14 Nov 2009 16:38:22 +0000 (17:38 +0100)]
History pruning exponential limit

Use an exponenital law instead of a linear one for
history pruning.

This should prune more at low depths and a bit less
at high depths.

After 965 games

Mod vs Orig +233 =504 -228 +2 ELO

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
14 years agoIncremental Futility Margin
Marco Costalba [Sat, 14 Nov 2009 20:36:43 +0000 (21:36 +0100)]
Incremental Futility Margin

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
14 years agoIn razor qsearch use corrected beta
Marco Costalba [Wed, 18 Nov 2009 08:30:02 +0000 (09:30 +0100)]
In razor qsearch use corrected beta

Correct beta by razor margin when callin qsearch

After 1019 games on Joona's QUAD

Mod - Orig: 524 - 495 (+10 elo)

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
14 years agoCode style triviality
Marco Costalba [Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:39:29 +0000 (14:39 +0100)]
Code style triviality

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
14 years agoMicro-optimize get_material_info()
Marco Costalba [Sun, 15 Nov 2009 08:35:22 +0000 (09:35 +0100)]
Micro-optimize get_material_info()

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
14 years agoConvert pawns evaluation to Score
Marco Costalba [Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:23:21 +0000 (17:23 +0100)]
Convert pawns evaluation to Score

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
14 years agoMove game phase computation to MaterialInfo
Marco Costalba [Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:29:04 +0000 (13:29 +0100)]
Move game phase computation to MaterialInfo

Game phase is a strictly function of the material
combination so its natural place is MaterialInfo,
not position.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
14 years agoNull move dynamic reduction based on value
Marco Costalba [Fri, 13 Nov 2009 10:25:34 +0000 (11:25 +0100)]
Null move dynamic reduction based on value

After 994 games at 1+0

Mod vs Orig +244 =521 -229 50.75%  504.5/994 +5 ELO

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
14 years agoUse a more standard perft UCI interface
Marco Costalba [Fri, 13 Nov 2009 09:27:14 +0000 (10:27 +0100)]
Use a more standard perft UCI interface

Call directly 'perft 6' to search up to depth 6*OnePly
instead of the old 'perft depth 6'.

It is more in line to what other engines do. Also a bit
of cleanup while there.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
14 years agoBetter document king safety evaluation
Marco Costalba [Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:01:44 +0000 (19:01 +0100)]
Better document king safety evaluation

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
14 years agoRearrange table layout in evaluate.cpp
Marco Costalba [Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:42:43 +0000 (17:42 +0100)]
Rearrange table layout in evaluate.cpp

A bit more cache friendly.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
14 years agoRemove dcCandidates data member from SplitPoint
Marco Costalba [Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:55:31 +0000 (16:55 +0100)]
Remove dcCandidates data member from SplitPoint

It is no more used now that we have CheckInfo.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
14 years agoRemove update_checkers()
Marco Costalba [Wed, 11 Nov 2009 09:41:46 +0000 (10:41 +0100)]
Remove update_checkers()

Now that we have CheckInfo we don't need it anymore.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
14 years agoRetire evaluate_mobility()
Marco Costalba [Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:17:38 +0000 (21:17 +0100)]
Retire evaluate_mobility()

Move the code to the caller and also move mob_area
computation out of evaluate_pieces(). It is more clear
the code flow and it is also faster.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
14 years agoSmall sort_moves() deobfuscation
Marco Costalba [Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:32:58 +0000 (20:32 +0100)]
Small sort_moves() deobfuscation

Write the for loop in a more idiomatic way, no assembly
change and of course no functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
14 years agoDon't futility-prune ttMove
Marco Costalba [Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:15:22 +0000 (18:15 +0100)]
Don't futility-prune ttMove

After 933 games
Mod vs Orig +219 =505 -208 +4 ELO

A small increase as expected.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
14 years agoPropagate "move is check" info to do_move()
Marco Costalba [Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:05:20 +0000 (11:05 +0100)]
Propagate "move is check" info to do_move()

When false (common case) we avoid to update checkers
bitboard that although not so costly slows down a bit
this very hot and critical path.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
14 years agoSmall update_checkers() cleanup
Marco Costalba [Tue, 10 Nov 2009 09:05:09 +0000 (10:05 +0100)]
Small update_checkers() cleanup

And is a bit faster too.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
14 years agoSmall update to pop_1st_bit()
Marco Costalba [Tue, 10 Nov 2009 07:55:52 +0000 (08:55 +0100)]
Small update to pop_1st_bit()

Avoid a 64 bit load using a pointer. It saves a couple of push/pop
instructions so advantage is only theorical, but anyway we use
pop_1st_bit() as a reference implementation for 32 bit systems so
we keep it more for documentation purposes then for other reasons.

Idea of pointer is of Eric Mullins.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
14 years agoSmall CheckInfo fallout
Marco Costalba [Mon, 9 Nov 2009 20:48:02 +0000 (21:48 +0100)]
Small CheckInfo fallout

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
14 years agoFully convert move_is_check() internally
Marco Costalba [Mon, 9 Nov 2009 20:29:22 +0000 (21:29 +0100)]
Fully convert move_is_check() internally

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
14 years agoConvert move_is_check() to take a CheckInfo reference
Marco Costalba [Mon, 9 Nov 2009 20:02:07 +0000 (21:02 +0100)]
Convert move_is_check() to take a CheckInfo reference

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
14 years agoUse CheckInfo to compute dcCandidates
Marco Costalba [Mon, 9 Nov 2009 19:54:45 +0000 (20:54 +0100)]
Use CheckInfo to compute dcCandidates

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
14 years agoIntroduce CheckInfo struct
Marco Costalba [Mon, 9 Nov 2009 19:49:01 +0000 (20:49 +0100)]
Introduce CheckInfo struct

Keeps info used to speed-up move_is_check()

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
14 years agoFix operator/(Score s, int i)
Marco Costalba [Mon, 9 Nov 2009 08:00:24 +0000 (09:00 +0100)]
Fix operator/(Score s, int i)

And remove some useless declarations

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
14 years agoDon't copy the key in do_move
Marco Costalba [Sun, 8 Nov 2009 16:56:41 +0000 (17:56 +0100)]
Don't copy the key in do_move

It will be overwritten anyway.

Also other little small touches that seem to increase
speed more then the whole enum Score patch series :-(

Optimization is really a black art.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
14 years agoDefine Score as an enum
Marco Costalba [Sat, 7 Nov 2009 21:21:50 +0000 (22:21 +0100)]
Define Score as an enum

Increases performance because now we use one integer
for both midgame and endgame scores.

Unfortunatly the latest patches seem to have reduced a bit
the speed so at the end we are more or less at the same
performance level of the beginning. But this patch series
introduced also some code cleanup so it is the main reason
we commit anyway.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
14 years agoChange Score definition to avoid the union
Marco Costalba [Sat, 7 Nov 2009 18:18:44 +0000 (19:18 +0100)]
Change Score definition to avoid the union

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
14 years agoRevert "Do not extend at low depths if not in PV"
Marco Costalba [Sat, 7 Nov 2009 18:47:02 +0000 (19:47 +0100)]
Revert "Do not extend at low depths if not in PV"

On Joona's QUAD:
Orig - Mod: 414 - 373

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
14 years agoRevert "IID in pv also when TT move depth is too small"
Marco Costalba [Sat, 7 Nov 2009 18:45:13 +0000 (19:45 +0100)]
Revert "IID in pv also when TT move depth is too small"

After almost 900 games we are at -2 ELO

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
14 years agoLast conversions to Score in evaluate.cpp
Marco Costalba [Sat, 7 Nov 2009 14:56:56 +0000 (15:56 +0100)]
Last conversions to Score in evaluate.cpp

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
14 years agoConvert ThreatBonus to Score
Marco Costalba [Sat, 7 Nov 2009 14:43:45 +0000 (15:43 +0100)]
Convert ThreatBonus to Score

No functional change.

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