#define MOVEPICK_H_INCLUDED
#include "history.h"
+#include "move.h"
#include "position.h"
#include "types.h"
/// MovePicker is a class which is used to pick one legal move at a time from
/// the current position. It is initialized with a Position object and a few
/// moves we have reason to believe are good. The most important method is
-/// MovePicker::pick_next_move(), which returns a new legal move each time it
+/// MovePicker::get_next_move(), which returns a new legal move each time it
/// is called, until there are no legal moves left, when MOVE_NONE is returned.
/// In order to improve the efficiency of the alpha beta algorithm, MovePicker
-/// attempts to return the moves which are most likely to be strongest first.
+/// attempts to return the moves which are most likely to get a cut-off first.
class MovePicker {
- MovePicker& operator=(const MovePicker&); // silence a warning under MSVC
+ MovePicker& operator=(const MovePicker&); // Silence a warning under MSVC
public:
- MovePicker(const Position& p, Move ttm, Depth d, const History& h, SearchStack* ss, Value beta);
- MovePicker(const Position& p, Move ttm, Depth d, const History& h);
+ MovePicker(const Position&, Move, Depth, const History&, SearchStack*, Value);
+ MovePicker(const Position&, Move, Depth, const History&);
Move get_next_move();
private: