Stockfish, a UCI chess playing engine derived from Glaurung 2.1
Copyright (C) 2004-2008 Tord Romstad (Glaurung author)
Copyright (C) 2008-2015 Marco Costalba, Joona Kiiski, Tord Romstad
- Copyright (C) 2015-2018 Marco Costalba, Joona Kiiski, Gary Linscott, Tord Romstad
+ Copyright (C) 2015-2019 Marco Costalba, Joona Kiiski, Gary Linscott, Tord Romstad
Stockfish is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
// Table used to drive the king towards a corner square of the
// right color in KBN vs K endgames.
constexpr int PushToCorners[SQUARE_NB] = {
- 200, 190, 180, 170, 160, 150, 140, 130,
- 190, 180, 170, 160, 150, 140, 130, 140,
- 180, 170, 155, 140, 140, 125, 140, 150,
- 170, 160, 140, 120, 110, 140, 150, 160,
- 160, 150, 140, 110, 120, 140, 160, 170,
- 150, 140, 125, 140, 140, 155, 170, 180,
- 140, 130, 140, 150, 160, 170, 180, 190,
- 130, 140, 150, 160, 170, 180, 190, 200
+ 6400, 6080, 5760, 5440, 5120, 4800, 4480, 4160,
+ 6080, 5760, 5440, 5120, 4800, 4480, 4160, 4480,
+ 5760, 5440, 4960, 4480, 4480, 4000, 4480, 4800,
+ 5440, 5120, 4480, 3840, 3520, 4480, 4800, 5120,
+ 5120, 4800, 4480, 3520, 3840, 4480, 5120, 5440,
+ 4800, 4480, 4000, 4480, 4480, 4960, 5440, 5760,
+ 4480, 4160, 4480, 4800, 5120, 5440, 5760, 6080,
+ 4160, 4480, 4800, 5120, 5440, 5760, 6080, 6400
};
// Tables used to drive a piece towards or away from another piece
/// Mate with KBN vs K. This is similar to KX vs K, but we have to drive the
-/// defending king towards a corner square of the right color.
+/// defending king towards a corner square that our bishop attacks.
template<>
Value Endgame<KBNK>::operator()(const Position& pos) const {
Square loserKSq = pos.square<KING>(weakSide);
Square bishopSq = pos.square<BISHOP>(strongSide);
- // kbnk_mate_table() tries to drive toward corners A1 or H8. If we have a
- // bishop that cannot reach the above squares, we flip the kings in order
- // to drive the enemy toward corners A8 or H1.
- if (opposite_colors(bishopSq, SQ_A1))
- {
- winnerKSq = ~winnerKSq;
- loserKSq = ~loserKSq;
- }
+ // If our Bishop does not attack A1/H8, we flip the enemy king square
+ // to drive to opposite corners (A8/H1).
Value result = VALUE_KNOWN_WIN
+ PushClose[distance(winnerKSq, loserKSq)]
- + PushToCorners[loserKSq];
+ + PushToCorners[opposite_colors(bishopSq, SQ_A1) ? ~loserKSq : loserKSq];
+ assert(abs(result) < VALUE_MATE_IN_MAX_PLY);
return strongSide == pos.side_to_move() ? result : -result;
}
}
-/// KR vs KB. This is very simple, and always returns drawish scores. The
+/// KR vs KB. This is very simple, and always returns drawish scores. The
/// score is slightly bigger when the defending king is close to the edge.
template<>
Value Endgame<KRKB>::operator()(const Position& pos) const {