2 Stockfish, a UCI chess playing engine derived from Glaurung 2.1
3 Copyright (C) 2004-2008 Tord Romstad (Glaurung author)
4 Copyright (C) 2008-2014 Marco Costalba, Joona Kiiski, Tord Romstad
6 Stockfish is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
7 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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11 Stockfish is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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20 #ifndef MATERIAL_H_INCLUDED
21 #define MATERIAL_H_INCLUDED
30 /// Material::Entry contains various information about a material configuration.
31 /// It contains a material balance evaluation, a function pointer to a special
32 /// endgame evaluation function (which in most cases is NULL, meaning that the
33 /// standard evaluation function will be used), and "scale factors".
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 Score material_value() const { return make_score(value, value); }
42 Score space_weight() const { return spaceWeight; }
43 Phase game_phase() const { return gamePhase; }
44 bool specialized_eval_exists() const { return evaluationFunction != NULL; }
45 Value evaluate(const Position& pos) const { return (*evaluationFunction)(pos); }
47 // scale_factor takes a position and a color as input, and returns a scale factor
48 // for the given color. We have to provide the position in addition to the color,
49 // because the scale factor need not be a constant: It can also be a function
50 // which should be applied to the position. For instance, in KBP vs K endgames,
51 // a scaling function for draws with rook pawns and wrong-colored bishops.
53 ScaleFactor scale_factor(const Position& pos, Color c) const {
55 return !scalingFunction[c] || (*scalingFunction[c])(pos) == SCALE_FACTOR_NONE
56 ? ScaleFactor(factor[c]) : (*scalingFunction[c])(pos);
61 uint8_t factor[COLOR_NB];
62 EndgameBase<Value>* evaluationFunction;
63 EndgameBase<ScaleFactor>* scalingFunction[COLOR_NB];
68 typedef HashTable<Entry, 8192> Table;
70 Entry* probe(const Position& pos, Table& entries, Endgames& endgames);
72 } // namespace Material
74 #endif // #ifndef MATERIAL_H_INCLUDED