From 3627348e2b4633604a878b0e5397acb6218a6afc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: VoyagerOne <excelgeek@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2017 18:56:39 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Allow pruning advance pawn pushes if not near endgame

STC:
LLR: -2.95 (-2.94,2.94) [0.00,5.00]
Total: 101088 W: 18016 L: 17717 D: 65355

LTC:
LLR: 2.95 (-2.94,2.94) [0.00,5.00]
Total: 61194 W: 8108 L: 7791 D: 45295

Bench: 5803228

Closes #1023
---
 src/search.cpp | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/search.cpp b/src/search.cpp
index 1f706e63..31e8b0b6 100644
--- a/src/search.cpp
+++ b/src/search.cpp
@@ -902,7 +902,7 @@ moves_loop: // When in check search starts from here
       {
           if (   !captureOrPromotion
               && !givesCheck
-              && !pos.advanced_pawn_push(move))
+              && (!pos.advanced_pawn_push(move) || pos.non_pawn_material(WHITE) + pos.non_pawn_material(BLACK) >= 5000))
           {
               // Move count based pruning
               if (moveCountPruning)
-- 
2.39.2