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,
12 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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20 #ifndef MOVEPICK_H_INCLUDED
21 #define MOVEPICK_H_INCLUDED
23 #include <algorithm> // For std::max
24 #include <cstring> // For std::memset
32 /// The Stats struct stores moves statistics. According to the template parameter
33 /// the class can store History, Gains and Countermoves. History records how often
34 /// different moves have been successful or unsuccessful during the current search
35 /// and is used for reduction and move ordering decisions. Gains records the move's
36 /// best evaluation gain from one ply to the next and is used for pruning decisions.
37 /// Countermoves store the move that refute a previous one. Entries are stored
38 /// using only the moving piece and destination square, hence two moves with
39 /// different origin but same destination and piece will be considered identical.
40 template<bool Gain, typename T>
43 static const Value Max = Value(2000);
45 const T* operator[](Piece pc) const { return table[pc]; }
46 void clear() { std::memset(table, 0, sizeof(table)); }
48 void update(Piece pc, Square to, Move m) {
50 if (m == table[pc][to].first)
53 table[pc][to].second = table[pc][to].first;
54 table[pc][to].first = m;
57 void update(Piece pc, Square to, Value v) {
60 table[pc][to] = std::max(v, table[pc][to] - 1);
62 else if (abs(table[pc][to] + v) < Max)
67 T table[PIECE_NB][SQUARE_NB];
70 typedef Stats< true, Value> GainsStats;
71 typedef Stats<false, Value> HistoryStats;
72 typedef Stats<false, std::pair<Move, Move> > MovesStats;
75 /// MovePicker class is used to pick one pseudo legal move at a time from the
76 /// current position. The most important method is next_move(), which returns a
77 /// new pseudo legal move each time it is called, until there are no moves left,
78 /// when MOVE_NONE is returned. In order to improve the efficiency of the alpha
79 /// beta algorithm, MovePicker attempts to return the moves which are most likely
80 /// to get a cut-off first.
84 MovePicker& operator=(const MovePicker&); // Silence a warning under MSVC
87 MovePicker(const Position&, Move, Depth, const HistoryStats&, Square);
88 MovePicker(const Position&, Move, const HistoryStats&, PieceType);
89 MovePicker(const Position&, Move, Depth, const HistoryStats&, Move*, Move*, Search::Stack*);
91 template<bool SpNode> Move next_move();
94 template<GenType> void score();
95 void generate_next_stage();
98 const HistoryStats& history;
105 Square recaptureSquare;
106 Value captureThreshold;
108 ExtMove *cur, *end, *endQuiets, *endBadCaptures;
109 ExtMove moves[MAX_MOVES];
112 #endif // #ifndef MOVEPICK_H_INCLUDED