From 9d1522b24f24f0bb37425cb5bb2087d622faa58e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2010 13:52:01 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] A king move can never have negative SEE

So there is no need to explicitly check for king moves
when detecting prunable evasions.

Perhaps teoretically a very bit slower (I didn't test),
but it is more clear now what evasions we consider prunable.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
---
 src/search.cpp | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/search.cpp b/src/search.cpp
index fa483fbc..e1245085 100644
--- a/src/search.cpp
+++ b/src/search.cpp
@@ -1502,7 +1502,6 @@ namespace {
       evasionPrunable =   isCheck
                        && bestValue > value_mated_in(PLY_MAX)
                        && !pos.move_is_capture(move)
-                       && pos.type_of_piece_on(move_from(move)) != KING
                        && !pos.can_castle(pos.side_to_move());
 
       // Don't search moves with negative SEE values
-- 
2.39.2