struct SearchStack;
-/// 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
+/// MovePicker is a class which is used to pick one pseudo 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::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.
+/// MovePicker::get_next_move(), which returns a new pseudo legal move each time
+/// it is called, until there are no 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 get a cut-off first.
const Position& pos;
const History& H;
- Bitboard pinned;
MoveStack ttMoves[2], killers[2];
int badCaptureThreshold, phase;
const uint8_t* phasePtr;