2 Stockfish, a UCI chess playing engine derived from Glaurung 2.1
3 Copyright (C) 2004-2008 Tord Romstad (Glaurung author)
4 Copyright (C) 2008-2010 Marco Costalba, Joona Kiiski, Tord Romstad
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20 #if !defined(MATERIAL_H_INCLUDED)
21 #define MATERIAL_H_INCLUDED
27 const int MaterialTableSize = 1024;
29 /// MaterialInfo is a class which contains various information about a
30 /// material configuration. It contains a material balance evaluation,
31 /// a function pointer to a special endgame evaluation function (which in
32 /// most cases is NULL, meaning that the standard evaluation function will
33 /// be used), and "scale factors" for black and white.
35 /// The scale factors are used to scale the evaluation score up or down.
36 /// For instance, in KRB vs KR endgames, the score is scaled down by a factor
37 /// of 4, which will result in scores of absolute value less than one pawn.
41 friend class MaterialInfoTable;
44 Score material_value() const;
45 ScaleFactor scale_factor(const Position& pos, Color c) const;
46 int space_weight() const;
47 Phase game_phase() const;
48 bool specialized_eval_exists() const;
49 Value evaluate(const Position& pos) const;
55 EndgameEvaluationFunctionBase* evaluationFunction;
56 EndgameScalingFunctionBase* scalingFunction[2];
61 /// The MaterialInfoTable class represents a pawn hash table. The most important
62 /// method is get_material_info, which returns a pointer to a MaterialInfo object.
63 class EndgameFunctions;
65 class MaterialInfoTable : public SimpleHash<MaterialInfo, MaterialTableSize> {
69 MaterialInfo* get_material_info(const Position& pos);
70 static Phase game_phase(const Position& pos);
72 EndgameFunctions* funcs;
76 /// MaterialInfo::material_value simply returns the material balance
77 /// evaluation that is independent from game phase.
79 inline Score MaterialInfo::material_value() const {
81 return make_score(value, value);
85 /// MaterialInfo::scale_factor takes a position and a color as input, and
86 /// returns a scale factor for the given color. We have to provide the
87 /// position in addition to the color, because the scale factor need not
88 /// to be a constant: It can also be a function which should be applied to
89 /// the position. For instance, in KBP vs K endgames, a scaling function
90 /// which checks for draws with rook pawns and wrong-colored bishops.
92 inline ScaleFactor MaterialInfo::scale_factor(const Position& pos, Color c) const {
94 if (scalingFunction[c] != NULL)
96 ScaleFactor sf = scalingFunction[c]->apply(pos);
97 if (sf != SCALE_FACTOR_NONE)
100 return ScaleFactor(factor[c]);
104 /// MaterialInfo::space_weight() simply returns the weight for the space
105 /// evaluation for this material configuration.
107 inline int MaterialInfo::space_weight() const {
113 /// MaterialInfo::game_phase() returns the game phase according
114 /// to this material configuration.
116 inline Phase MaterialInfo::game_phase() const {
122 /// MaterialInfo::specialized_eval_exists decides whether there is a
123 /// specialized evaluation function for the current material configuration,
124 /// or if the normal evaluation function should be used.
126 inline bool MaterialInfo::specialized_eval_exists() const {
128 return evaluationFunction != NULL;
132 /// MaterialInfo::evaluate applies a specialized evaluation function
133 /// to a given position object. It should only be called when
134 /// specialized_eval_exists() returns 'true'.
136 inline Value MaterialInfo::evaluate(const Position& pos) const {
138 return evaluationFunction->apply(pos);
141 #endif // !defined(MATERIAL_H_INCLUDED)