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15 years agoMerge Joona Kiiski NULL search beta correction
Marco Costalba [Fri, 13 Mar 2009 14:26:02 +0000 (15:26 +0100)]
Merge Joona Kiiski NULL search beta correction

Prune more moves after a null search because of
a lower beta limit then in main search.

In test positions reduces the searched nodes of 30% !!!!

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
15 years agoMerge Joona Kiiski evaluation tweaks
Marco Costalba [Fri, 13 Mar 2009 10:20:24 +0000 (11:20 +0100)]
Merge Joona Kiiski evaluation tweaks

Merge tewaks to many evaluation parameters
by Joona Kiiski.

After test they seem good!

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
15 years agoMicro optimize move_is_check()
Marco Costalba [Sat, 7 Mar 2009 19:38:05 +0000 (20:38 +0100)]
Micro optimize move_is_check()

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
15 years agoMicro optimize pl_move_is_legal()
Marco Costalba [Sat, 7 Mar 2009 19:08:45 +0000 (20:08 +0100)]
Micro optimize pl_move_is_legal()

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
15 years agoMicro optimize previous patch
Marco Costalba [Fri, 6 Mar 2009 19:39:43 +0000 (20:39 +0100)]
Micro optimize previous patch

Also remove some Intel warnings, not all :-(

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
15 years agoIntroduce evaluate_pieces<>() to remove redundancy
Marco Costalba [Fri, 6 Mar 2009 15:29:46 +0000 (16:29 +0100)]
Introduce evaluate_pieces<>() to remove redundancy

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
15 years agoFix compile error with inlines under gcc and Intel
Marco Costalba [Wed, 4 Mar 2009 22:11:23 +0000 (23:11 +0100)]
Fix compile error with inlines under gcc and Intel

It seems that these compilers do not like inline functions
that call a template when template definition is not in scope.

So move functions from header to in *.cpp file

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
15 years agoFix some comments in position.cpp
Marco Costalba [Wed, 4 Mar 2009 15:34:04 +0000 (16:34 +0100)]
Fix some comments in position.cpp

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
15 years agoAvoid to call useless sliders attacks in update_checkers()
Marco Costalba [Wed, 4 Mar 2009 13:50:39 +0000 (14:50 +0100)]
Avoid to call useless sliders attacks in update_checkers()

Quickly filter out some calls to sliders attacks
when we already know that will fail for sure.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
15 years agoSuper fast hidden_checkers()
Marco Costalba [Wed, 4 Mar 2009 11:04:28 +0000 (12:04 +0100)]
Super fast hidden_checkers()

Rewritten hidden_checkers() to avoid calling
sliders attacks functions but just a much
faster squares_between()

Also a good code semplification.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
15 years agoCleanup SearchStack initialization
Marco Costalba [Tue, 3 Mar 2009 10:17:43 +0000 (11:17 +0100)]
Cleanup SearchStack initialization

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
15 years agoMicro optimize copy of new state in do_move()
Marco Costalba [Mon, 2 Mar 2009 16:32:30 +0000 (17:32 +0100)]
Micro optimize copy of new state in do_move()

Instead of copying all, copy only the fields that
are updated incrementally, not the ones that are
recalcuated form scratch anyway.

This reduces copy overhead of 30%.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
15 years agoRevert hidden checkers rework
Marco Costalba [Mon, 2 Mar 2009 15:20:00 +0000 (16:20 +0100)]
Revert hidden checkers rework

It is slower the previous uglier but faster code.

So completely restore old one for now :-(

Just leave in the rework of status backup/restore in do_move().

We will cherry pick bits of previous work once we are sure
we have fixed the performance regression.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
15 years agoUse checker info to remove a bunch of hidden checks updates
Marco Costalba [Sat, 28 Feb 2009 15:49:50 +0000 (16:49 +0100)]
Use checker info to remove a bunch of hidden checks updates

Another powerful condition let us remove a big chunk of
useless updates.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
15 years agoStricter condition to check for dc candidates
Marco Costalba [Sat, 28 Feb 2009 12:43:49 +0000 (13:43 +0100)]
Stricter condition to check for dc candidates

Another optimization that let us remove another half
of find_hidden_checks(them, DcCandidates) calls.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
15 years agoSplit calculation of pinners from dc candidates
Marco Costalba [Sat, 28 Feb 2009 09:20:57 +0000 (10:20 +0100)]
Split calculation of pinners from dc candidates

This let us to calculate only pinners when we now that
dc candidates are not possible.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
15 years agoSlightly better condition in update_hidden_checks()
Marco Costalba [Sat, 28 Feb 2009 08:42:52 +0000 (09:42 +0100)]
Slightly better condition in update_hidden_checks()

Use a more strict condition to check if we have captured
an opponent pinner or hidden checker.

With this patch the occurrence of checkerCaptured == true are
reduced of 50%.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
15 years agoCompute pinned and friends incrementally
Marco Costalba [Sat, 28 Feb 2009 08:18:29 +0000 (09:18 +0100)]
Compute pinned and friends incrementally

In do_move() use previous pinned bitboards values to compute
the new one after the move. In particulary we end up with the
same bitboards in most cases. So detect these cases and just
keep the old values.

This should speedup a lot this slow computation in a very hot
path so that we can use this important info everywhere in the
code at very cheap cost.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
15 years agoFix a subtle bug due to the StateInfo pointer became stale
Marco Costalba [Mon, 23 Feb 2009 17:46:33 +0000 (18:46 +0100)]
Fix a subtle bug due to the StateInfo pointer became stale

There was one occurence when the StateInfo variable went
out of scope before the corresponding Position object.

This yelds to a crash. Bug was not hit before because occurs
only when using an UCI interface and not the usual benchmark.

The fix consists in copying internally the content of the
about to stale StateInfo.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
15 years agoTeach SEE about pinned pieces
Marco Costalba [Mon, 23 Feb 2009 14:19:51 +0000 (15:19 +0100)]
Teach SEE about pinned pieces

Remove pinned pieces from attacks when calculating
SEE value.

Algorithm is not perfect, there should be no false
positives, but can happen that we miss to remove a
pinned piece. Currently we don't cach 100% of cases,
but is a tradeoff between speed and accuracy. In any
case we stay on the safe side, so we remove an attacker
when we are sure it is pinned.

About only 0,5% of cases are affected by this patch, not
a lot given the hard work: this is a difficult patch!

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
15 years agoSmall Position::clear() cleanup
Marco Costalba [Mon, 23 Feb 2009 11:48:57 +0000 (12:48 +0100)]
Small Position::clear() cleanup

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
15 years agoDo not copy the whole old state in do_move()
Marco Costalba [Mon, 23 Feb 2009 11:06:06 +0000 (12:06 +0100)]
Do not copy the whole old state in do_move()

Instead of copy the old state in the new one, copy only
fields that will be updated incrementally, not the ones
that will be recalculcated anyway.

This let us copy 13 bytes instead of 28 for each do_move()
call.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
15 years agoUpdate pinned bitboards and friends in do_move()
Marco Costalba [Mon, 23 Feb 2009 10:37:31 +0000 (11:37 +0100)]
Update pinned bitboards and friends in do_move()

Probably is slightly slow, but code is surely better
in this way. We will optimize later for speed.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
15 years agoFix some asserts unhidden by a debug compile
Marco Costalba [Sun, 22 Feb 2009 23:21:11 +0000 (00:21 +0100)]
Fix some asserts unhidden by a debug compile

Fallback form previous patches.
No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
15 years agoAvoid resetting pinners[c]
Marco Costalba [Sun, 22 Feb 2009 20:06:52 +0000 (21:06 +0100)]
Avoid resetting pinners[c]

Small optimization. No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
15 years agoIntroduce StateInfo instead of UndoInfo
Marco Costalba [Sun, 22 Feb 2009 19:16:21 +0000 (20:16 +0100)]
Introduce StateInfo instead of UndoInfo

We don't backup anymore but use the renamed StateInfo
argument passed in do_move() to store the new position
state when doing a move.

Backup is now just revert to previous StateInfo that we know
because we store a pointer to it.
Note that now backing store is up to the caller, Position is
stateless in that regard, state is accessed through a pointer.

This patch will let us remove all the backup/restore copying,
just a pointer switch is now necessary.

Note that do_null_move() still uses StateInfo as backup.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
15 years agoWrap state variables in a named struct
Marco Costalba [Sun, 22 Feb 2009 17:31:24 +0000 (18:31 +0100)]
Wrap state variables in a named struct

This will allow us to more easily move the state
out of Position class.

No functioanl change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
15 years agoConvert also undo_null_move() to avoid passing UndoInfo object
Marco Costalba [Sun, 22 Feb 2009 17:03:23 +0000 (18:03 +0100)]
Convert also undo_null_move() to avoid passing UndoInfo object

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
15 years agoPassing UndoInfo is not needed anymore when undoing the move
Marco Costalba [Sun, 22 Feb 2009 16:49:52 +0000 (17:49 +0100)]
Passing UndoInfo is not needed anymore when undoing the move

We store it now in the same UndoInfo struct as 'previous'
field, so when doing a move we also know where to get
the previous info when undoing the back the move.

This is needed for future patches and is a nice cleanup anyway.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
15 years agoRemove two useless calls to pinned_pieces()
Marco Costalba [Sat, 21 Feb 2009 18:59:29 +0000 (19:59 +0100)]
Remove two useless calls to pinned_pieces()

Are obsoleted by new pinned caching code.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
15 years agoPosition: Unify and templetize mg_pst() and eg_pst()
Marco Costalba [Fri, 20 Feb 2009 11:21:52 +0000 (12:21 +0100)]
Position: Unify and templetize mg_pst() and eg_pst()

Also templetize compute_value() can be simpler now that
the above is templetized too.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
15 years agoUnify compute_mg_value() and compute_eg_value()
Marco Costalba [Fri, 20 Feb 2009 11:05:07 +0000 (12:05 +0100)]
Unify compute_mg_value() and compute_eg_value()

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
15 years agoUse a union to fast and simply backup info in do_move()
Marco Costalba [Fri, 20 Feb 2009 10:13:19 +0000 (11:13 +0100)]
Use a union to fast and simply backup info in do_move()

This nice union trick let us optimize the speed and
remove the now unuseful backup() and restore() functions.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
15 years agoIn Position backup and restore contiguous data
Marco Costalba [Fri, 20 Feb 2009 09:20:08 +0000 (10:20 +0100)]
In Position backup and restore contiguous data

Give the compiler one more chance to optimize the copy.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
15 years agoFinally remove any occurence of dcCandidates from search.cpp
Marco Costalba [Thu, 19 Feb 2009 16:35:23 +0000 (17:35 +0100)]
Finally remove any occurence of dcCandidates from search.cpp

This ends our cleanup series.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
15 years agoDo not pass discovery check candidates in Position::do_move()
Marco Costalba [Thu, 19 Feb 2009 16:29:36 +0000 (17:29 +0100)]
Do not pass discovery check candidates in Position::do_move()

Also remove any bit of 'pinned' and co. from MovePicker class.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
15 years agoDo not pass pinned argument in Position::move_is_check()
Marco Costalba [Thu, 19 Feb 2009 16:01:08 +0000 (17:01 +0100)]
Do not pass pinned argument in Position::move_is_check()

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
15 years agoDo not pass pinned argument in Position::pl_move_is_legal()
Marco Costalba [Thu, 19 Feb 2009 15:48:57 +0000 (16:48 +0100)]
Do not pass pinned argument in Position::pl_move_is_legal()

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
15 years agoCleanup pinned and friends in movegen.cpp
Marco Costalba [Thu, 19 Feb 2009 15:37:03 +0000 (16:37 +0100)]
Cleanup pinned and friends in movegen.cpp

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
15 years agoCache pinned and discovery check bitboards
Marco Costalba [Thu, 19 Feb 2009 15:28:35 +0000 (16:28 +0100)]
Cache pinned and discovery check bitboards

After have been calculated cache their values
so to avoid another expensive call to hidden_checks()
if pinned_pieces() or discovered_check_candidates() are
called with the same position.

Add also interface to get pinners bitboard, we already have
this value so save it instead of discard.

Now that, after the first call to pinned_pieces() the following
are very cheap we can rewrite and cleanup all the checking handling.

So this patch is a prerequisite for future work.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
15 years agoRevert mobility of pinned pieces for now
Marco Costalba [Thu, 19 Feb 2009 14:49:54 +0000 (15:49 +0100)]
Revert mobility of pinned pieces for now
We will redo after rewriting the handling of
pinned bitboard and its friends.

15 years agoRemove xxx_of_color() for real
Marco Costalba [Tue, 17 Feb 2009 16:26:15 +0000 (17:26 +0100)]
Remove xxx_of_color() for real

Remove also from assert expressions. Was hidden
in release mode.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
15 years agoChange piece_attacks_square() API
Marco Costalba [Tue, 17 Feb 2009 11:00:05 +0000 (12:00 +0100)]
Change piece_attacks_square() API

An extra argument let us simplify some code.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
15 years agoMobility is zero for a pinned piece
Marco Costalba [Tue, 17 Feb 2009 10:29:14 +0000 (11:29 +0100)]
Mobility is zero for a pinned piece

A little bit more overhead, but better mobility evaluation.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
15 years agoRemove xxx_of_color() helpers
Marco Costalba [Tue, 17 Feb 2009 09:54:47 +0000 (10:54 +0100)]
Remove xxx_of_color() helpers

They hide the underlying uniform function call with
no benefit.

A little bit more verbose but now is clear what happens.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
15 years agoAvoid a call to move_is_capture() in extension()
Marco Costalba [Fri, 13 Feb 2009 19:21:05 +0000 (20:21 +0100)]
Avoid a call to move_is_capture() in extension()

Pass value as an argument instead or recalculating it.
Altough call is cheap this is a very hot path so with
this patch total time spent for move_is_capture() is almost
halved.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
15 years agoAdd scan for X-ray attacks in piece_attacks_square()
Marco Costalba [Fri, 13 Feb 2009 14:29:24 +0000 (15:29 +0100)]
Add scan for X-ray attacks in piece_attacks_square()

Used to avoid pruning interesting moves.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
15 years agoFix a subtle bug in Position::move_is_capture()
Marco Costalba [Fri, 13 Feb 2009 13:17:39 +0000 (14:17 +0100)]
Fix a subtle bug in Position::move_is_capture()

Currently fails if we test with a move that is not of
from the side to move but from the opponent.

This is the typical case of the threat from null move
search. The result is an erroneus prune of the defending
moves, see PruneDefendingMoves in ok_to_prune()

Fix the test to work also with threat moves.

Bug was always in but was unhidden by a patch of 17/12/2008
"Trigger of PawnEndgameExtension if capture is not a pawn"

Until then it was hidden by a tricky check in the prune
conditions instead of the natural move_is_capture()

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
15 years agoDo not manually build endgame functions hash keys
Marco Costalba [Fri, 13 Feb 2009 09:00:47 +0000 (10:00 +0100)]
Do not manually build endgame functions hash keys

Use Position::compute_material_key() to do the job,
so we are sure there is not key mismatch during
endgame function lookups.

This fixes two endgames hash errors that caused two
endgames to be disabled.

This patch is also a code cleanup because removes a lot
of messy key assignments.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
15 years agoUse template for endgame scaling functions
Marco Costalba [Thu, 12 Feb 2009 13:59:46 +0000 (14:59 +0100)]
Use template for endgame scaling functions

Also integrate scaling and evaluation in a
single base class.

Nice use of templates here :-)

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
15 years agoUse templates for end game evaluation functions
Marco Costalba [Thu, 12 Feb 2009 12:20:22 +0000 (13:20 +0100)]
Use templates for end game evaluation functions

Huge simplification and no speed cost penalty.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
15 years agoSmall code formatting in position.cpp
Marco Costalba [Thu, 12 Feb 2009 11:43:14 +0000 (12:43 +0100)]
Small code formatting in position.cpp

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
15 years agoUse update_checkers<>() also for PAWN
Marco Costalba [Thu, 12 Feb 2009 11:26:23 +0000 (12:26 +0100)]
Use update_checkers<>() also for PAWN

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
15 years agoIntroduce update_checkers() to simplify do_move()
Marco Costalba [Thu, 12 Feb 2009 11:12:46 +0000 (12:12 +0100)]
Introduce update_checkers() to simplify do_move()

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
15 years agoRemove square_is_attacked()
Marco Costalba [Thu, 12 Feb 2009 08:53:37 +0000 (09:53 +0100)]
Remove square_is_attacked()

Use attacks_to() instead. No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
15 years agoRename generate_piece_blocking_evasions()
Marco Costalba [Thu, 12 Feb 2009 08:28:18 +0000 (09:28 +0100)]
Rename generate_piece_blocking_evasions()

In generate_piece_moves() to be more uniform with other
functions. Unfortunatly the different number of calling arguments
do not allow us to easily integrate in generate_piece_moves()
template family.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
15 years agoFinal touches to generate_evasions()
Marco Costalba [Wed, 11 Feb 2009 16:21:03 +0000 (17:21 +0100)]
Final touches to generate_evasions()

Small code tidy up and a little optimization
to avoid calling generate_piece_blocking_evasions()
when blockSquares is empty (30% of cases).

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
15 years agoSimplify legality check in generate_evasions()
Marco Costalba [Wed, 11 Feb 2009 10:59:27 +0000 (11:59 +0100)]
Simplify legality check in generate_evasions()

Now that we have removed sliders checkers attacks
from evasion's set we can simplyfy legality check.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
15 years agogenerate_evasions() avoid an usless check for enpassant case
Marco Costalba [Wed, 11 Feb 2009 15:51:35 +0000 (16:51 +0100)]
generate_evasions() avoid an usless check for enpassant case

Remove ugly and useless code.
No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
15 years agoOptimize generate_piece_blocking_evasions()
Marco Costalba [Wed, 11 Feb 2009 11:58:45 +0000 (12:58 +0100)]
Optimize generate_piece_blocking_evasions()

Rewrite as in generate_piece_moves() using a for
loop instead of the slower serializing of the
bitboard with pop_1st_bit()

This will allow also to merge with generate_piece_moves()
when we will drop legality constrain on generate_evasions()

Generated moves are not changed, but are generated in a
different order, this changes the number of nodes at fixed
depth test.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
15 years agogenerate_evasions() avoid to calculate pinned pieces
Marco Costalba [Wed, 11 Feb 2009 11:13:58 +0000 (12:13 +0100)]
generate_evasions() avoid to calculate pinned pieces

Pass as function argument.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
15 years agoDrop a double semicolon
Marco Costalba [Wed, 11 Feb 2009 07:37:33 +0000 (08:37 +0100)]
Drop a double semicolon

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15 years agoLast touches to movegen.cpp
Marco Costalba [Tue, 10 Feb 2009 16:53:19 +0000 (17:53 +0100)]
Last touches to movegen.cpp

Of course no functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
15 years agoRemove special case of pawn checks generation
Marco Costalba [Tue, 10 Feb 2009 16:44:55 +0000 (17:44 +0100)]
Remove special case of pawn checks generation

Also additional renaming.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
15 years agoRemove special case of pawn move generatation
Marco Costalba [Tue, 10 Feb 2009 16:31:07 +0000 (17:31 +0100)]
Remove special case of pawn move generatation

Code cleanup. No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
15 years agoSimplify generate_evasions()
Marco Costalba [Tue, 10 Feb 2009 15:58:02 +0000 (16:58 +0100)]
Simplify generate_evasions()

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
15 years agoSimplify generate_checks()
Marco Costalba [Tue, 10 Feb 2009 15:02:48 +0000 (16:02 +0100)]
Simplify generate_checks()

Also rearrange signatures to be uniform.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
15 years agoMicro-optimize do_generate_pawn_checks()
Marco Costalba [Tue, 10 Feb 2009 11:28:47 +0000 (12:28 +0100)]
Micro-optimize do_generate_pawn_checks()

Discovery check candidates are normally empty, so
avoid discovery checks generation in that common case.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
15 years agoTempletize generate_piece_checks_king()
Marco Costalba [Tue, 10 Feb 2009 10:03:45 +0000 (11:03 +0100)]
Templetize generate_piece_checks_king()

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
15 years agoSmall optimization in generate_evasions()
Marco Costalba [Sat, 7 Feb 2009 12:11:52 +0000 (13:11 +0100)]
Small optimization in generate_evasions()

Find squares attacked by slider checkers, we will
remove them from king evasions set so to avoid a couple
of cycles in the slow king evasions legality check loop.

Not a biggie, but now generate_evasions() is faster then
generate_non_captures(), before was slower.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
15 years agoSimplify newly introduced castling_is_check()
Marco Costalba [Fri, 6 Feb 2009 15:40:30 +0000 (16:40 +0100)]
Simplify newly introduced castling_is_check()

Use bit_is_set() instead of open coding.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
15 years agoSmall code style tidy up
Marco Costalba [Fri, 6 Feb 2009 15:21:00 +0000 (16:21 +0100)]
Small code style tidy up

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
15 years agoFix casting warnings under Intel Compiler
Marco Costalba [Sat, 7 Feb 2009 11:31:53 +0000 (12:31 +0100)]
Fix casting warnings under Intel Compiler

Int to Char warning fixed changing the function
signature to int.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
15 years agoFix Makefile
Marco Costalba [Sat, 7 Feb 2009 11:25:37 +0000 (12:25 +0100)]
Fix Makefile

Was broken after we removed color.cpp and square.cpp

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
15 years agoTempletize generate_castle_moves()
Marco Costalba [Thu, 5 Feb 2009 15:08:00 +0000 (16:08 +0100)]
Templetize generate_castle_moves()

Cleanup the code and remove lines.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
15 years agoAdd generation of castling checks
Marco Costalba [Thu, 5 Feb 2009 14:06:41 +0000 (15:06 +0100)]
Add generation of castling checks

When we generate checks one case is missing: generation
of castling moves that give check to the opponent king.

This is a very rare case but anyway it is a case
and we can do this without slowing down the common
case of no castling checks.

So this is the patch.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
15 years agoRemove square.cpp
Marco Costalba [Wed, 4 Feb 2009 16:51:23 +0000 (17:51 +0100)]
Remove square.cpp

Move the few stuff in square.h

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
15 years agoMove constants from piece.cpp to piece.h
Marco Costalba [Wed, 4 Feb 2009 16:42:28 +0000 (17:42 +0100)]
Move constants from piece.cpp to piece.h

Leave in piece.cpp only a couple of functions that
need #include <cstring>

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
15 years agoPawnInfo::clear() retire memset() and fix Ubuntu compile
Marco Costalba [Wed, 4 Feb 2009 16:18:12 +0000 (17:18 +0100)]
PawnInfo::clear() retire memset() and fix Ubuntu compile

Go back to original direct assignment, this allows to
add an include in pawns.h to teach about memset()

This fix a compile error under Ubuntu.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
15 years agoRemove the useless color.cpp
Marco Costalba [Wed, 4 Feb 2009 16:12:21 +0000 (17:12 +0100)]
Remove the useless color.cpp

Integrate the only (inline) function in color.h

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
15 years agoFinal endgame.cpp space inflate
Marco Costalba [Tue, 3 Feb 2009 15:08:41 +0000 (16:08 +0100)]
Final endgame.cpp space inflate

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
15 years agoRevert previous commit.
Marco Costalba [Tue, 3 Feb 2009 14:41:04 +0000 (15:41 +0100)]
Revert previous commit.
Optimization is correct but slightly slower
so it is a pessimization :-)

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
15 years agoYet another count_1s() optimization
Marco Costalba [Sun, 25 Jan 2009 18:29:15 +0000 (19:29 +0100)]
Yet another count_1s() optimization

No functional change

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
15 years agoRever count_1s() optimizations
Marco Costalba [Sun, 25 Jan 2009 17:00:57 +0000 (18:00 +0100)]
Rever count_1s() optimizations

They are wrong for all ones case.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
15 years agoMovePicker, remove a variable
Marco Costalba [Sun, 25 Jan 2009 12:52:35 +0000 (13:52 +0100)]
MovePicker, remove a variable

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
15 years agoMovePicker::find_best_index() never returns -1
Marco Costalba [Sun, 25 Jan 2009 12:36:59 +0000 (13:36 +0100)]
MovePicker::find_best_index() never returns -1

So avoid checking for it.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
15 years agoRewrite count_1s() to be similar to 64bit counterpart
Marco Costalba [Sun, 11 Jan 2009 16:15:18 +0000 (17:15 +0100)]
Rewrite count_1s() to be similar to 64bit counterpart

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
15 years agoMicro optimize count_1s_max_15() for 32 bit system
Marco Costalba [Sun, 11 Jan 2009 16:05:29 +0000 (17:05 +0100)]
Micro optimize count_1s_max_15() for 32 bit system

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
15 years agoFix a very old bug in queen mobility
Marco Costalba [Sat, 10 Jan 2009 15:11:33 +0000 (16:11 +0100)]
Fix a very old bug in queen mobility

For queen mobility could be bigger then 15, so
we need count_1s() not count_1s_max_15().

This bug was introduced by patch:
"Group common evaluate code" of 24/9/2008

So it's almost 4 months and two release old!

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
15 years agoStart to space inflate endgame.cpp
Marco Costalba [Thu, 8 Jan 2009 14:46:57 +0000 (15:46 +0100)]
Start to space inflate endgame.cpp

Still a lot to do, it's a big file!

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
15 years agoRewrite evaluate_common() as a template
Marco Costalba [Wed, 7 Jan 2009 14:37:28 +0000 (15:37 +0100)]
Rewrite evaluate_common() as a template

Seems to speed up this very hot path and code is
cleaner too.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
15 years agoBig trailing whitespace cleanup part 2
Marco Costalba [Wed, 7 Jan 2009 13:28:04 +0000 (14:28 +0100)]
Big trailing whitespace cleanup part 2

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
15 years agoBig trailing whitespace cleanup part 1
Marco Costalba [Wed, 7 Jan 2009 13:26:58 +0000 (14:26 +0100)]
Big trailing whitespace cleanup part 1

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
15 years agoAnother micro-optmization in valuate_passed_pawns()
Marco Costalba [Wed, 7 Jan 2009 13:17:50 +0000 (14:17 +0100)]
Another micro-optmization in valuate_passed_pawns()

very small gain, but still a gain at the cost of
an extra indentation level.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
15 years agoFix a small bug in rook pawn evaluation
Marco Costalba [Tue, 6 Jan 2009 15:10:22 +0000 (16:10 +0100)]
Fix a small bug in rook pawn evaluation

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
15 years agoevaluate_passed_pawns() micro-optmization
Marco Costalba [Tue, 6 Jan 2009 15:06:08 +0000 (16:06 +0100)]
evaluate_passed_pawns() micro-optmization

No functional change, only a bit faster.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
15 years agoFinal space inflate of evaluatio.cpp
Marco Costalba [Tue, 6 Jan 2009 14:59:08 +0000 (15:59 +0100)]
Final space inflate of evaluatio.cpp

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
15 years agoSpace inflate evaluate_passed_pawns()
Marco Costalba [Tue, 6 Jan 2009 14:49:33 +0000 (15:49 +0100)]
Space inflate evaluate_passed_pawns()

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
15 years agoPiece mobility: filter out squares protected by pawns
Marco Costalba [Mon, 5 Jan 2009 14:14:16 +0000 (15:14 +0100)]
Piece mobility: filter out squares protected by pawns

Do not consider squares protected by enemy pawns
in mobility evaluation.

This reduces the mobility value by about 15%

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
15 years agoTake in account odd depths in razoring formula
Marco Costalba [Mon, 5 Jan 2009 11:41:27 +0000 (12:41 +0100)]
Take in account odd depths in razoring formula

This is somewhat taken from Stockfish 1.2 Default,
only the razoring thresold are updated, not the
razoring depth.

At the end razoring is a bit more aggressive. Results
seems slightly positive.

After 999 games +239 =536 -224 Elo +5

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