2 Stockfish, a UCI chess playing engine derived from Glaurung 2.1
3 Copyright (C) 2004-2023 The Stockfish developers (see AUTHORS file)
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29 MAIN_TT, CAPTURE_INIT, GOOD_CAPTURE, REFUTATION, QUIET_INIT, QUIET, BAD_CAPTURE,
30 EVASION_TT, EVASION_INIT, EVASION,
31 PROBCUT_TT, PROBCUT_INIT, PROBCUT,
32 QSEARCH_TT, QCAPTURE_INIT, QCAPTURE, QCHECK_INIT, QCHECK
35 // partial_insertion_sort() sorts moves in descending order up to and including
36 // a given limit. The order of moves smaller than the limit is left unspecified.
37 void partial_insertion_sort(ExtMove* begin, ExtMove* end, int limit) {
39 for (ExtMove *sortedEnd = begin, *p = begin + 1; p < end; ++p)
40 if (p->value >= limit)
44 for (q = sortedEnd; q != begin && *(q - 1) < tmp; --q)
53 /// Constructors of the MovePicker class. As arguments we pass information
54 /// to help it to return the (presumably) good moves first, to decide which
55 /// moves to return (in the quiescence search, for instance, we only want to
56 /// search captures, promotions, and some checks) and how important good move
57 /// ordering is at the current node.
59 /// MovePicker constructor for the main search
60 MovePicker::MovePicker(const Position& p, Move ttm, Depth d, const ButterflyHistory* mh,
61 const CapturePieceToHistory* cph,
62 const PieceToHistory** ch,
65 : pos(p), mainHistory(mh), captureHistory(cph), continuationHistory(ch),
66 ttMove(ttm), refutations{{killers[0], 0}, {killers[1], 0}, {cm, 0}}, depth(d)
70 stage = (pos.checkers() ? EVASION_TT : MAIN_TT) +
71 !(ttm && pos.pseudo_legal(ttm));
75 /// MovePicker constructor for quiescence search
76 MovePicker::MovePicker(const Position& p, Move ttm, Depth d, const ButterflyHistory* mh,
77 const CapturePieceToHistory* cph,
78 const PieceToHistory** ch,
80 : pos(p), mainHistory(mh), captureHistory(cph), continuationHistory(ch), ttMove(ttm), recaptureSquare(rs), depth(d)
84 stage = (pos.checkers() ? EVASION_TT : QSEARCH_TT) +
86 && pos.pseudo_legal(ttm));
89 /// MovePicker constructor for ProbCut: we generate captures with SEE greater
90 /// than or equal to the given threshold.
91 MovePicker::MovePicker(const Position& p, Move ttm, Value th, const CapturePieceToHistory* cph)
92 : pos(p), captureHistory(cph), ttMove(ttm), threshold(th)
94 assert(!pos.checkers());
96 stage = PROBCUT_TT + !(ttm && pos.capture(ttm)
97 && pos.pseudo_legal(ttm)
98 && pos.see_ge(ttm, threshold));
101 /// MovePicker::score() assigns a numerical value to each move in a list, used
102 /// for sorting. Captures are ordered by Most Valuable Victim (MVV), preferring
103 /// captures with a good history. Quiets moves are ordered using the history tables.
104 template<GenType Type>
105 void MovePicker::score() {
107 static_assert(Type == CAPTURES || Type == QUIETS || Type == EVASIONS, "Wrong type");
109 [[maybe_unused]] Bitboard threatenedByPawn, threatenedByMinor, threatenedByRook;
110 if constexpr (Type == QUIETS)
112 Color us = pos.side_to_move();
114 threatenedByPawn = pos.attacks_by<PAWN>(~us);
115 threatenedByMinor = pos.attacks_by<KNIGHT>(~us) | pos.attacks_by<BISHOP>(~us) | threatenedByPawn;
116 threatenedByRook = pos.attacks_by<ROOK>(~us) | threatenedByMinor;
118 // Pieces threatened by pieces of lesser material value
119 threatenedPieces = (pos.pieces(us, QUEEN) & threatenedByRook)
120 | (pos.pieces(us, ROOK) & threatenedByMinor)
121 | (pos.pieces(us, KNIGHT, BISHOP) & threatenedByPawn);
124 for (auto& m : *this)
125 if constexpr (Type == CAPTURES)
126 m.value = (7 * int(PieceValue[MG][pos.piece_on(to_sq(m))])
127 + (*captureHistory)[pos.moved_piece(m)][to_sq(m)][type_of(pos.piece_on(to_sq(m)))]) / 16;
129 else if constexpr (Type == QUIETS)
130 m.value = 2 * (*mainHistory)[pos.side_to_move()][from_to(m)]
131 + 2 * (*continuationHistory[0])[pos.moved_piece(m)][to_sq(m)]
132 + (*continuationHistory[1])[pos.moved_piece(m)][to_sq(m)]
133 + (*continuationHistory[3])[pos.moved_piece(m)][to_sq(m)]
134 + (*continuationHistory[5])[pos.moved_piece(m)][to_sq(m)]
135 + (threatenedPieces & from_sq(m) ?
136 (type_of(pos.moved_piece(m)) == QUEEN && !(to_sq(m) & threatenedByRook) ? 50000
137 : type_of(pos.moved_piece(m)) == ROOK && !(to_sq(m) & threatenedByMinor) ? 25000
138 : !(to_sq(m) & threatenedByPawn) ? 15000
141 + bool(pos.check_squares(type_of(pos.moved_piece(m))) & to_sq(m)) * 16384;
142 else // Type == EVASIONS
145 m.value = PieceValue[MG][pos.piece_on(to_sq(m))]
146 - Value(type_of(pos.moved_piece(m)))
149 m.value = (*mainHistory)[pos.side_to_move()][from_to(m)]
150 + (*continuationHistory[0])[pos.moved_piece(m)][to_sq(m)];
154 /// MovePicker::select() returns the next move satisfying a predicate function.
155 /// It never returns the TT move.
156 template<MovePicker::PickType T, typename Pred>
157 Move MovePicker::select(Pred filter) {
159 while (cur < endMoves)
162 std::swap(*cur, *std::max_element(cur, endMoves));
164 if (*cur != ttMove && filter())
172 /// MovePicker::next_move() is the most important method of the MovePicker class. It
173 /// returns a new pseudo-legal move every time it is called until there are no more
174 /// moves left, picking the move with the highest score from a list of generated moves.
175 Move MovePicker::next_move(bool skipQuiets) {
190 cur = endBadCaptures = moves;
191 endMoves = generate<CAPTURES>(pos, cur);
194 partial_insertion_sort(cur, endMoves, std::numeric_limits<int>::min());
199 if (select<Next>([&](){
200 return pos.see_ge(*cur, Value(-cur->value)) ?
201 // Move losing capture to endBadCaptures to be tried later
202 true : (*endBadCaptures++ = *cur, false); }))
205 // Prepare the pointers to loop over the refutations array
206 cur = std::begin(refutations);
207 endMoves = std::end(refutations);
209 // If the countermove is the same as a killer, skip it
210 if ( refutations[0].move == refutations[2].move
211 || refutations[1].move == refutations[2].move)
218 if (select<Next>([&](){ return *cur != MOVE_NONE
219 && !pos.capture(*cur)
220 && pos.pseudo_legal(*cur); }))
228 cur = endBadCaptures;
229 endMoves = generate<QUIETS>(pos, cur);
232 partial_insertion_sort(cur, endMoves, -3000 * depth);
240 && select<Next>([&](){return *cur != refutations[0].move
241 && *cur != refutations[1].move
242 && *cur != refutations[2].move;}))
245 // Prepare the pointers to loop over the bad captures
247 endMoves = endBadCaptures;
253 return select<Next>([](){ return true; });
257 endMoves = generate<EVASIONS>(pos, cur);
264 return select<Best>([](){ return true; });
267 return select<Next>([&](){ return pos.see_ge(*cur, threshold); });
270 if (select<Next>([&](){ return depth > DEPTH_QS_RECAPTURES
271 || to_sq(*cur) == recaptureSquare; }))
274 // If we did not find any move and we do not try checks, we have finished
275 if (depth != DEPTH_QS_CHECKS)
283 endMoves = generate<QUIET_CHECKS>(pos, cur);
289 return select<Next>([](){ return true; });
293 return MOVE_NONE; // Silence warning
296 } // namespace Stockfish