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Marco Costalba [Mon, 25 May 2009 06:28:55 +0000 (07:28 +0100)]
Revert _BitScanForward64 support
It shows almost no improvment and adds a good
bunch of complexity.
So remove for now. No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Marco Costalba [Sun, 24 May 2009 09:25:59 +0000 (10:25 +0100)]
Add a bit more pop_1st_bit<HasBSF> conversions
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Marco Costalba [Sun, 24 May 2009 09:15:23 +0000 (10:15 +0100)]
Use compiler name lookup to simplify code
We don't need different names between a function and a
template. Compiler will know when use one or the other.
This let use restore original count_1s_xx() names instead of
sw_count_1s_xxx so to simplify a bit the code.
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Marco Costalba [Sun, 24 May 2009 09:07:03 +0000 (10:07 +0100)]
Enable _BitScanForward64 in move generation
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Marco Costalba [Sun, 24 May 2009 08:46:43 +0000 (09:46 +0100)]
Enable _BitScanForward64 at runtime
Only add infrastructure, still disabled.
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Marco Costalba [Sat, 23 May 2009 10:42:43 +0000 (11:42 +0100)]
Print info about use of 64bit functions and hardware POPCNT
With this patch at the applications startup a line is printed
with info about use of optimized 64 bit routines and hardware
POPCNT.
Also allow the possibility to disable POPCNT support during
PGO compiles to exercise the fallback software only path.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Marco Costalba [Thu, 21 May 2009 16:08:34 +0000 (17:08 +0100)]
Fix compile errors under MSVC
Fallback from previous patches.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Marco Costalba [Thu, 21 May 2009 14:50:19 +0000 (16:50 +0200)]
Forgot two conversion to new POPCNT interface
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Marco Costalba [Thu, 21 May 2009 14:42:07 +0000 (16:42 +0200)]
Add temporary debug info on POPCNT support
To be removed before to release.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Marco Costalba [Thu, 21 May 2009 14:41:31 +0000 (16:41 +0200)]
Enable POPCNT at runtime
Runtime detect POPCNT instruction support and
use it.
Also if POPCNT is not supported we don't add _any_ overhead so
that we don't lose any speed in standard case.
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Marco Costalba [Thu, 21 May 2009 13:29:28 +0000 (15:29 +0200)]
Introduce bitcount.h
It will be used for POPCNT intrinsics.
For now no bianry and functional change.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Marco Costalba [Thu, 21 May 2009 10:15:52 +0000 (12:15 +0200)]
Unify piece_attacks<> for KNIGHT and KING
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Marco Costalba [Thu, 21 May 2009 09:28:51 +0000 (11:28 +0200)]
Use do_move_bb() also for en passant moves
Unfortunatly, due to Chess960 compatibility we cannot
extend also to castling where the destinations squares
are not guaranteed to be empty.
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Marco Costalba [Thu, 21 May 2009 08:55:23 +0000 (10:55 +0200)]
Introduce do_move_bb() to update bitboards after a move
Avoid a clear_bit() + set_bit() sequence but update bitboards
with only one xor instructions.
This is faster and simplifies the code.
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Marco Costalba [Thu, 21 May 2009 07:54:48 +0000 (09:54 +0200)]
Backup some mor einfo in do_null_move()
Faster undo_null_move()
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Marco Costalba [Thu, 21 May 2009 07:47:03 +0000 (09:47 +0200)]
Move npMaterial[2] to StateInfo in Position
So to have a bit faster undo_move() and also
a code semplification.
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Marco Costalba [Wed, 20 May 2009 13:12:45 +0000 (15:12 +0200)]
Retire lastMove from Position class
Is not used in any way so remove.
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Marco Costalba [Wed, 20 May 2009 13:11:41 +0000 (15:11 +0200)]
Small code style in headers
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Marco Costalba [Wed, 20 May 2009 12:40:50 +0000 (14:40 +0200)]
Directly relate HistoryMax to OnePly
This obsoletes some remainding comments.
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Marco Costalba [Wed, 20 May 2009 10:40:07 +0000 (12:40 +0200)]
Small code style massage in uci.cpp
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Marco Costalba [Wed, 20 May 2009 10:02:39 +0000 (12:02 +0200)]
Space inflate and cleanup direction.cpp
Hopefully it is now more clear what's happening here.
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Marco Costalba [Mon, 18 May 2009 07:51:46 +0000 (09:51 +0200)]
Reduce history 4 times instead of 2 when reach the maximum
This gives more weight to newer entries.
After 999 games at 1'+ 0" we have:
Mod vs Orig +233/-208/=558 51.25% +9 ELO
Confirmed by another session of 437 games:
Mod vs Orig +109/-92/=236 51.95% +14 ELO
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Marco Costalba [Tue, 19 May 2009 14:49:54 +0000 (15:49 +0100)]
Retire count_1s_8bit()
Use the plain array lookup in the only place where it
is used. This remove an unecessary indirection and better
clarifies what code does.
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Marco Costalba [Tue, 19 May 2009 14:41:45 +0000 (15:41 +0100)]
Small code style triviality in evaluation
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Marco Costalba [Tue, 19 May 2009 14:35:12 +0000 (15:35 +0100)]
Remove hardcode default values of UCI variables from evaluation
This is the same change we have already done in search.cpp,
this time for evaluation.cpp
If a variable will be populated reading an UCI option
then do not hard code its default values.
This avoids misleadings when reading the sources.
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Marco Costalba [Sat, 16 May 2009 14:15:05 +0000 (16:15 +0200)]
Cache king shelter info in pawns structure
It does not change often and is not so fast
to calculate.
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Marco Costalba [Sat, 16 May 2009 11:22:40 +0000 (12:22 +0100)]
Move beta counter variables to the per-thread data
This should reduce concurrent accessing in SMP case.
Suggestion by Tord Romstad.
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Marco Costalba [Fri, 15 May 2009 14:42:30 +0000 (16:42 +0200)]
Better document how history works
Both with added comment and changing the API to
reflect that only destination square and moved piece
is important for history.
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Marco Costalba [Fri, 15 May 2009 07:39:36 +0000 (09:39 +0200)]
Fix broken multi-pv with aspiration window search
Aspiration window search must be disabled for
multi-pv case.
We missed one point where aspiration window should
be disabled in this case.
Patch from Joona, with a little added edit by me.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Marco Costalba [Tue, 12 May 2009 10:10:40 +0000 (12:10 +0200)]
Fix a warning un using anonymous structs
No functional and no binary change.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Marco Costalba [Sun, 10 May 2009 16:58:53 +0000 (17:58 +0100)]
Use string instead of std::string
And others small code style touches.
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Marco Costalba [Sun, 10 May 2009 11:21:45 +0000 (13:21 +0200)]
Use 64 bits for debug counters
Has happened 32 bits were not enough for
some test.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Marco Costalba [Sat, 9 May 2009 10:01:00 +0000 (12:01 +0200)]
Fix some Intel compilers warnings
Also a compile fix due to Makefile missing new
application.cpp file.
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Marco Costalba [Fri, 8 May 2009 08:53:45 +0000 (10:53 +0200)]
Micro optimize generate_pawn_checks()
Use a better condition to find candidate direct check pawns.
In particular consider only pawns in the front ranks of the
enemy king, this greatly reduces pawns candidates bitboard
that now is empty more then 90% of the time so that we
can early skip further tests.
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Marco Costalba [Thu, 7 May 2009 15:08:55 +0000 (17:08 +0200)]
Convert also generate_pawn_blocking_evasions() to new API
New compact parameter passing API.
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Marco Costalba [Thu, 7 May 2009 15:01:52 +0000 (17:01 +0200)]
Better dscovery check condition in generate_pawn_checks()
Be more strict, is not enough dc bitboard is not empty, but
needs to inclde also at least one pawn.
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Marco Costalba [Thu, 7 May 2009 13:32:28 +0000 (15:32 +0200)]
Further parametrize generate_pawn_captures
We can parametrize for the capture direction too.
Also use a single template parameter and calculate (at
compile time) remainin parameters directly in the function.
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Marco Costalba [Thu, 7 May 2009 12:54:40 +0000 (14:54 +0200)]
Update copyright year
We are well in 2009 already.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Marco Costalba [Thu, 7 May 2009 10:45:46 +0000 (12:45 +0200)]
Rewrite the way application exits
Centralize in a single object all the global resources
management and avoid a bunch of sparse exit() calls.
This is more reliable and clean and more stick to C++ coding
practices.
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Marco Costalba [Thu, 7 May 2009 07:27:38 +0000 (09:27 +0200)]
Be sure book file is closed before we leave
Move closing of file in Book destructor. This
guarantees us against leaving the file open under
any case and simplifies also Book use.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Marco Costalba [Wed, 6 May 2009 12:52:12 +0000 (14:52 +0200)]
Rewrite Book implementation
Let Book be derived directly from std::ifstream
and rewrite the functions accordingly.
Also simplify file reading by use of operator>>()
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Marco Costalba [Wed, 6 May 2009 08:28:17 +0000 (10:28 +0200)]
Space inflate book.cpp
Also document most interesting parts.
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Marco Costalba [Tue, 5 May 2009 18:42:16 +0000 (19:42 +0100)]
Fix a couple of MSVC warnings
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Marco Costalba [Tue, 5 May 2009 13:09:09 +0000 (15:09 +0200)]
Micro optimize move_is_ep() and move_is_castle()
Avoid a shift operation moving it at compile time.
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Marco Costalba [Tue, 5 May 2009 12:55:48 +0000 (14:55 +0200)]
Faster Position::move_is_capture() condition
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Marco Costalba [Tue, 5 May 2009 11:10:29 +0000 (13:10 +0200)]
Fix missing pawn color check in move_is_legal()
In case we have a correct white pawn move but pawn
is black (or the contrary) we fail to detect the
move as illegal.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Marco Costalba [Mon, 4 May 2009 09:38:08 +0000 (11:38 +0200)]
Update makefile to use PGO with Intel C++ v11.0
Update profiler guided optimization instructions in
Makefile to the latest Intel C++ compiler.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Marco Costalba [Mon, 4 May 2009 09:18:24 +0000 (11:18 +0200)]
Micro optimize SEE
Use pieces_of_type() instead of pieces_of_color_and_type()
in an hot loop and cut of almost 10% SEE execution time.
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Marco Costalba [Sat, 2 May 2009 15:47:06 +0000 (16:47 +0100)]
Avoid an usless check in pl_move_is_legal
Although very cheap this is a very hot path,
so avoid it.
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Marco Costalba [Sat, 2 May 2009 12:57:52 +0000 (14:57 +0200)]
Change TT interface to ask directly for a position key
Instead of a position because the key is all that we
need.
Interface is more clear and also very very little bit faster.
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Marco Costalba [Sat, 2 May 2009 12:39:23 +0000 (14:39 +0200)]
Setup to use Callgrind profiler
Disabled by default.
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Marco Costalba [Sat, 2 May 2009 12:38:26 +0000 (14:38 +0200)]
Restore development versioning and LSN filtering
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Marco Costalba [Sun, 3 May 2009 06:49:34 +0000 (07:49 +0100)]
Stockfish 1.3.1
Mainteinance version to fix broken Glaurung 2
book reading.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Marco Costalba [Sun, 3 May 2009 06:28:37 +0000 (07:28 +0100)]
Revert Glaurung 1 book compatibility patch
It breaks also Glaurung 2 book parsing.
We really need to work on book.cpp, but for now just
leave compatibility just for Glaurung 2 books.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Marco Costalba [Sat, 2 May 2009 09:09:53 +0000 (10:09 +0100)]
Stockfish 1.3
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Marco Costalba [Sat, 2 May 2009 10:14:45 +0000 (11:14 +0100)]
Fix a very old UCI option parsing bug
We currently fail on an option with a sapece in the name,
as example
setoption name Clear Hash
returns error message "Option Clear not found". This
patch fixes this off-by-one type bug.
Thanks to Joona for spotting this.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Marco Costalba [Fri, 1 May 2009 09:27:03 +0000 (11:27 +0200)]
Nicely simplify MovePicker::pick_move_from_list
It is a positive fall back from previous patch.
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Marco Costalba [Fri, 1 May 2009 08:17:34 +0000 (10:17 +0200)]
Sort moves just after scoring
Instead of a delayed selection sort so that the highest
score move is picked up from the list when needed, sort all
the moves up front just after score them.
Selection sort is O(n*n) while std::sort is O(n*log n), it
is true that delayed selection allows us to just pick the move
until a cut off occurs or up to a given limit (12), but with
an average of 30 non capture-moves delayed pick become slower
just after 5-6 moves and we now pick up to 12.
Profiling seem to prove this idea and movepick.cpp is now 10%
faster.
Also tests seem to confirm this:
After 700 games at 1+0: Mod vs Orig +178 -160 =362 +9 ELO
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Marco Costalba [Thu, 30 Apr 2009 14:16:35 +0000 (15:16 +0100)]
Update polyglot.ini
Upadte to new parameters and parameters values.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Marco Costalba [Thu, 30 Apr 2009 07:18:20 +0000 (09:18 +0200)]
Stockfish 1.3 rc1
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Marco Costalba [Thu, 30 Apr 2009 06:55:38 +0000 (08:55 +0200)]
Do not razor after a null move
We don't want to return unproven null move fails high, so
that if a position is so good that null move fails high we
want to check this with real do_move() / undo_move() test,
not just razoring the position because, from the opponent
point of view, is very bad.
These are tests results at 1+0
Mod vs Orig +252 -264 =483 49.40%
Mod vs Toga II 1.4.1SE +365 -325 =309 52.00%
So it seems a very slightly regression regarding orig version (but
withing error bar) and a nice increase against Toga that is what we
are interested most. Orig version scores 49.75% against Toga, so
we welcome this change ;-)
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Marco Costalba [Wed, 29 Apr 2009 13:53:37 +0000 (15:53 +0200)]
Fix assignment of pv[0] when creating root move list
It is bogusly assigned from moves[i].move instead of mlist[i].move
or equivalently to moves[count].move that it seem more clear to me.
Bug is hidden while all the moves are included, in this default case
moves[i].move and mlist[i].move are the same variable.
Also a bit of cleanup while there.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Marco Costalba [Tue, 28 Apr 2009 06:51:11 +0000 (08:51 +0200)]
Merge Joona's razoring tweaks
After proof testing on 3 different engines these
are the results:
Stockfish - Toga II 1.4.1SE +130 -132 =132 49.75%
Stockfish - Deep Sieng 3.0 +145 -110 =150 54.45%
Stockfish - HIARCS 12 MP +94 -149 =150 43.00%
So it seems no regressions occurs, although also no
improvment. But anyhow this patch increases Stockfish
strenght against itself, so merge it.
Note that this patch not only adds back razoring at depth
one, but also increases razor depth limit from 3 to 4
because hard coded depth 4 limit is no more overwritten
by UCI parameter that otherwise defaults to 3.
Marco Costalba [Tue, 28 Apr 2009 06:47:26 +0000 (08:47 +0200)]
Hardcode depth limit for selective search
Because futility margins array has a fixed size we cannot
arbitrarly choose or change the SelectiveDepth parameter,
otherwise we have a crash for values bigger then array size.
On the other hand tweaking of this parameter requires some
modification to the hardcoded margins, so makes sense to hard
code also this very bounded one.
Who wants to experiment is of course free to change the sources.
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Marco Costalba [Mon, 27 Apr 2009 17:00:45 +0000 (18:00 +0100)]
Fix a warning under MSVC
Somehow silly warning C4800:
'int' :forcing value to bool 'true' or 'false'(performance warning)
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Marco Costalba [Mon, 27 Apr 2009 15:39:59 +0000 (17:39 +0200)]
Micro optimize Position::move_is_check()
More then optimization it is worth a bit of better
code self documenting.
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Marco Costalba [Mon, 27 Apr 2009 14:35:31 +0000 (16:35 +0200)]
Inline Position::move_is_capture()
This is a very hot path function, profiling on Intel compiler
shows that inlining cuts in half the overhead.
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Marco Costalba [Mon, 27 Apr 2009 12:48:14 +0000 (13:48 +0100)]
Retire timeoday.cpp
Move the only function gettimeofday in misc.cpp
where is used.
This avoids polluting the global namespace.
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Marco Costalba [Mon, 27 Apr 2009 12:38:47 +0000 (13:38 +0100)]
Small cleanup in misc.cpp
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Marco Costalba [Mon, 27 Apr 2009 12:21:49 +0000 (13:21 +0100)]
Code style cleanup in transposition table code
Assorted fixes but no functional change.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Marco Costalba [Mon, 27 Apr 2009 09:29:33 +0000 (10:29 +0100)]
Fix a bogus assert in tt.cpp
Max hash size is 4096 MB, not 1024 MB, see the corresponding
"Hash" UCI parameter in ucioption.cpp
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Marco Costalba [Mon, 27 Apr 2009 09:12:34 +0000 (10:12 +0100)]
Convert piece.cpp to C++
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Marco Costalba [Mon, 27 Apr 2009 08:45:15 +0000 (09:45 +0100)]
Remove an useless comparison in futility pruning
Currently futility is allowed when depth < SelectiveDepth
and SelectiveDepth is 7*OnePly, so the comprison is
always true.
Patch could introduce a functional change only if
we choose to increase SelectiveDepth.
Currently no functional change.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Marco Costalba [Sun, 19 Apr 2009 16:23:30 +0000 (17:23 +0100)]
Small code tidy up and test results
When testing at 1'+0" time control results are still
reasonably good. We have made two sessions on two
different PC.
After 840 games Mod - Orig: +221 -194 =425 +10 ELO (two CPU)
After 935 games Mod - Orig: +246 -222 =467 +9 ELO (single CPU)
So it seems that with fast CPU and/or longer time controls
benefits of the patch are a bit reduced. This could be due
to the fact that only 3% of nodes are pruned by razoring at
depth one and these nodes are very swallow ones, mostly get
pruned anyway with only a slightly additional cost, even
without performing any do_move() call.
Another reason is that sometime (0,3%% of cases) a possible
good move is missed typically in positions when moving side
gives check, as example in the following one
3r2k1/pbpp1nbp/1p6/3P3q/6RP/1P4P1/P4Pb1/3Q2K1 w - -
The winning move Rxg7+ is missed.
Bottom line is that patch seems good for blitz times, perhaps
also for longer times. We should test against a third engine
(Toga ?) to have a final answer regarding this new setup.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Joona Kiiski [Thu, 9 Apr 2009 04:29:13 +0000 (07:29 +0300)]
Razor again at depth one
Some time ago it was found by Marco Costalba that it's better
to disable razoring at depth one, because given the very low
evaluation of the node, futility pruning would already do
the job at very low cost and avoiding missing important moves.
Now enable razoring there again, but only when our quickly evaluated
material advantage is more than a rook. The idea is to try razoring
only when it's extremely likely that it will succeed.
Extreme lightning speed test show promising result:
Orig - Mod: +1285 =1495 -1348
This needs to be tested with longer time controls though.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Joona Kiiski [Wed, 8 Apr 2009 14:35:36 +0000 (17:35 +0300)]
Make futility and razor margins more tunable
Restructure RazorMargins and FutilityMargins arrays so that their
values can be more easily tuned.
Add RazorApprMargins array which replaces razorAtDepthOne concept,
because setting RazorApprMargin very high value at ply one is
same as not razoring there at all.
Comment out setting razoring and futility margins through uci to
avoid errors while tuning.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Marco Costalba [Sat, 25 Apr 2009 14:26:06 +0000 (15:26 +0100)]
Do not hardcode default values of UCI variables
If a variable will be populated reading an UCI option
then do not hard code its default values.
This avoids misleadings when reading the sources.
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Marco Costalba [Mon, 20 Apr 2009 07:10:27 +0000 (09:10 +0200)]
Greatly speedup has_mate_threat()
Instead of loop across all legal moves to find a mate
loop across possible check moves only.
This reduces more then 10 times the number of moves to
check for a possible mate.
Also rename generate_checks() in generate_non_capture_checks()
so to better clarify what the function does.
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Marco Costalba [Sun, 19 Apr 2009 19:09:53 +0000 (21:09 +0200)]
Micro optimize generate_piece_checks() take 2
Add some missing bits of this patch.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Joona Kiiski [Sun, 19 Apr 2009 16:46:07 +0000 (19:46 +0300)]
Add missing header file to make stockfish compile with latest Inter C++ Compiler under Linux (memcpy needs cstring)
Correct some references glaurung -> stockfish in Makefile
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Marco Costalba [Sun, 19 Apr 2009 15:44:12 +0000 (16:44 +0100)]
Simplify Position::is_mate()
Should be a bit faster too.
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Marco Costalba [Sat, 18 Apr 2009 15:21:44 +0000 (16:21 +0100)]
Micro optimize generate_piece_checks()
Avoid calculating piece attacks if there aren't
available check sqaures for the given piece.
About 15% of cases. Not a biggie but still something
especially in the middle game where king is well covered
inside his castle.
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Marco Costalba [Sat, 18 Apr 2009 13:19:19 +0000 (14:19 +0100)]
MovePicker: retire per square MVV/LVA ordering
Is not used anyway and in case we need it again we
can resurrect from git archives.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Marco Costalba [Sat, 18 Apr 2009 13:03:33 +0000 (14:03 +0100)]
In qsearch store the cut move in TT
And upon reentering the same position try it as first.
Normally qsearch moves order is already very good, first move
is the cut off in almost 90% of cases. With this patch, we get
a cut off on TT move of 98%.
Another good side effect is that we don't generate captures
and/or checks when we already have a TT move.
Unfortunatly we found a TT move only in 1% of cases. So real
impact of this patch is relatively low.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Marco Costalba [Thu, 16 Apr 2009 06:35:26 +0000 (08:35 +0200)]
Merge Joona's new aspiration window search
It seems very positive.
After 999 games at 1'+0" result is: +249 -216 =534 +11 ELO
And after another 456 games we still have: +122 -113 =221
Marco Costalba [Tue, 14 Apr 2009 10:36:34 +0000 (12:36 +0200)]
Introduce move_pawns() helper in movegen.cpp
This let us to have more readable code keeping the
same speed.
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Marco Costalba [Thu, 16 Apr 2009 08:02:01 +0000 (10:02 +0200)]
Remove failHigh/Low bits from IterationInfoType
We don't use that info anyway.
Also document a little more new aspiration window code.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Joona Kiiski [Wed, 15 Apr 2009 15:14:06 +0000 (18:14 +0300)]
Restore calling insert_pv after search is aborted + small clean-up
Restore old behaviour that after search is aborted we call insert_pv,
before breaking out from the iterative deepening loop.
Remove one useless FIXME and document other better.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Marco Costalba [Wed, 15 Apr 2009 10:44:55 +0000 (12:44 +0200)]
Little code style tweaks
Let the code be more conformant to current style.
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Marco Costalba [Wed, 15 Apr 2009 08:20:35 +0000 (10:20 +0200)]
Revert previous patch as per Joona request
Joona says patch gives bad results after testing,
so revert for now.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Joona Kiiski [Sun, 12 Apr 2009 21:27:07 +0000 (00:27 +0300)]
Improve handling of fail-highs in assumed PV
Check all fail highs in assumed PV with greater care (fruit/Toga already does this).
Add a flag when aspiration search fails high at ply 1 to prevent search to
be terminated prematurely.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Joona Kiiski [Sun, 12 Apr 2009 20:30:40 +0000 (23:30 +0300)]
Revert "Implement a fallback system when aspiration search fails low and we are out of time."
This reverts commit
55dd98f7c717b94a659931cd20e088334b1cf7a6 .
Revert fallback-system for root_search
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Joona Kiiski [Sun, 12 Apr 2009 20:25:05 +0000 (23:25 +0300)]
Implement a fallback system when aspiration search fails low and we are out of time.
However also this patch is immediately reverted. For three reasons:
1) the case it affects is very rare (and then we are likely to lose anyway),
so we can well live without this.
2) Because the case is so rare it's hard to test this change properly.
3) To perform fallback search, we must reset so many global variables that this
patch is very likely both buggy and extremely bad style.
Consider including this again if we clean-up global variables one day...
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Joona Kiiski [Sun, 12 Apr 2009 16:49:09 +0000 (19:49 +0300)]
Revert "Implement bestValue in root_search."
This reverts commit
9a39f93f35254787b7b57980019dde276a89c48c .
Revert bestValue in root_search
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Joona Kiiski [Sun, 12 Apr 2009 16:42:47 +0000 (19:42 +0300)]
Implement bestValue in root_search.
However just after finished writing this patch I realized that this
is not the way to go. So this will be immediately reverted.
(Just save this here in git in case I change my mind later :) )
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Joona Kiiski [Sat, 11 Apr 2009 13:46:35 +0000 (16:46 +0300)]
Dynamic aspiration search without research.
Implement system where aspiration search window is calculated using
values from previous iterations.
And then some crazy experimental stuff: If search fails low at the root,
don't widen window, but continue and hope we will find a better move
with given window. If search fails high at the root, cut immediately,
add some more time and start new iteration.
Note: this patch is not complete implementation, but a first test
for this idea. There are many FIXMEs left around. Most importantly
how to deal with the situation when we don't have any move!
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Marco Costalba [Sun, 12 Apr 2009 15:45:33 +0000 (16:45 +0100)]
Re-fix square.h warning to avoid a compile error under MSVC
This fix adds ugliness to an already ugly previous fix...hopefully
it is the last one :-(
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Marco Costalba [Sun, 12 Apr 2009 16:05:09 +0000 (18:05 +0200)]
Fix a gcc warning due to order of initialization in Option
Move idx declaration before minValue and maxValue and silence
this last warning.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Marco Costalba [Sun, 12 Apr 2009 16:01:06 +0000 (18:01 +0200)]
Fix a compile error with Intel icc
To make std::sort() work operator<() should be
declared const.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Marco Costalba [Sun, 12 Apr 2009 15:58:30 +0000 (17:58 +0200)]
Fix a warning under Intel compiler in square.h
We need to cast to char the whole expression...
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>