// where it is possible to recapture with the hanging piece). Exchanging
// big pieces before capturing a hanging piece probably helps to reduce
// the subtree size.
+ // While scoring captures it moves all captures with negative SEE values
+ // to the badCaptures[] array.
Move m;
int seeValue;
else
moves[i].score = int(pos.midgame_value_of_piece_on(move_to(m)))
-int(pos.type_of_piece_on(move_from(m)));
- } else
+ }
+ else
+ {
+ // Losing capture, move it to the badCaptures[] array
+ assert(numOfBadCaptures < 63);
moves[i].score = seeValue;
+ badCaptures[numOfBadCaptures++] = moves[i];
+ moves[i--] = moves[--numOfMoves];
+ }
}
}
/// from a list of generated moves (moves[] or badCaptures[], depending on
/// the current move generation phase). It takes care not to return the
/// transposition table move if that has already been serched previously.
-/// While picking captures in the PH_GOOD_CAPTURES phase (i.e. while picking
-/// non-losing captures in the main search), it moves all captures with
-/// negative SEE values to the badCaptures[] array.
Move MovePicker::pick_move_from_list() {
while (movesPicked < numOfMoves)
{
- int bestScore = -10000000;
- bestIndex = -1;
- for (int i = movesPicked; i < numOfMoves; i++)
- {
- if (moves[i].score < 0)
- {
- // Losing capture, move it to the badCaptures[] array
- assert(numOfBadCaptures < 63);
- badCaptures[numOfBadCaptures++] = moves[i];
- moves[i--] = moves[--numOfMoves];
- }
- else if (moves[i].score > bestScore)
- {
- bestIndex = i;
- bestScore = moves[i].score;
- }
- }
+ bestIndex = find_best_index(&capSquares, capSqValues);
+
if (bestIndex != -1) // Found a good capture
{
move = moves[bestIndex].move;