- // Evaluate the material balance
-
- Color c;
- int sign;
- Value egValue = Value(0);
- Value mgValue = Value(0);
-
- for (c = WHITE, sign = 1; c <= BLACK; c++, sign = -sign)
- {
- // No pawns makes it difficult to win, even with a material advantage
- if ( pos.piece_count(c, PAWN) == 0
- && pos.non_pawn_material(c) - pos.non_pawn_material(opposite_color(c)) <= BishopValueMidgame)
- {
- if ( pos.non_pawn_material(c) == pos.non_pawn_material(opposite_color(c))
- || pos.non_pawn_material(c) < RookValueMidgame)
- mi->factor[c] = 0;
- else
- {
- switch (pos.piece_count(c, BISHOP)) {
- case 2:
- mi->factor[c] = 32;
- break;
- case 1:
- mi->factor[c] = 12;
- break;
- case 0:
- mi->factor[c] = 6;
- break;
- }
- }
- }
-
- // Bishop pair
- if (pos.piece_count(c, BISHOP) >= 2)
- {
- mgValue += sign * BishopPairMidgameBonus;
- egValue += sign * BishopPairEndgameBonus;
- }
-
- // Knights are stronger when there are many pawns on the board. The
- // formula is taken from Larry Kaufman's paper "The Evaluation of Material
- // Imbalances in Chess":
- // http://mywebpages.comcast.net/danheisman/Articles/evaluation_of_material_imbalance.htm
- mgValue += sign * Value(pos.piece_count(c, KNIGHT)*(pos.piece_count(c, PAWN)-5)*16);
- egValue += sign * Value(pos.piece_count(c, KNIGHT)*(pos.piece_count(c, PAWN)-5)*16);
-
- // Redundancy of major pieces, again based on Kaufman's paper:
- if (pos.piece_count(c, ROOK) >= 1)
- {
- Value v = Value((pos.piece_count(c, ROOK) - 1) * 32 + pos.piece_count(c, QUEEN) * 16);
- mgValue -= sign * v;
- egValue -= sign * v;
- }
- }
-
- mi->mgValue = int16_t(mgValue);
- mi->egValue = int16_t(egValue);
- return mi;
+ // Zero or just one pawn makes it difficult to win, even with a small material
+ // advantage. This catches some trivial draws like KK, KBK and KNK and gives a
+ // drawish scale factor for cases such as KRKBP and KmmKm (except for KBBKN).
+ if (!pos.count<PAWN>(WHITE) && npm_w - npm_b <= BishopValueMg)
+ e->factor[WHITE] = uint8_t(npm_w < RookValueMg ? SCALE_FACTOR_DRAW :
+ npm_b <= BishopValueMg ? 4 : 14);
+
+ if (!pos.count<PAWN>(BLACK) && npm_b - npm_w <= BishopValueMg)
+ e->factor[BLACK] = uint8_t(npm_b < RookValueMg ? SCALE_FACTOR_DRAW :
+ npm_w <= BishopValueMg ? 4 : 14);
+
+ // Evaluate the material imbalance. We use PIECE_TYPE_NONE as a place holder
+ // for the bishop pair "extended piece", which allows us to be more flexible
+ // in defining bishop pair bonuses.
+ const int pieceCount[COLOR_NB][PIECE_TYPE_NB] = {
+ { pos.count<BISHOP>(WHITE) > 1, pos.count<PAWN>(WHITE), pos.count<KNIGHT>(WHITE),
+ pos.count<BISHOP>(WHITE) , pos.count<ROOK>(WHITE), pos.count<QUEEN >(WHITE) },
+ { pos.count<BISHOP>(BLACK) > 1, pos.count<PAWN>(BLACK), pos.count<KNIGHT>(BLACK),
+ pos.count<BISHOP>(BLACK) , pos.count<ROOK>(BLACK), pos.count<QUEEN >(BLACK) } };
+
+ e->value = int16_t((imbalance<WHITE>(pieceCount) - imbalance<BLACK>(pieceCount)) / 16);
+ return e;