Tord says that using a lower horizon at PV nodes
looks strange and inconsistent with the general
philosophy of our search (i.e. always being more
conservative at PV nodes). So set LMR at 3 also
on search_pv().
Test result after 601 games seems to confirm this.
Mod vs Orig +156 =318 -127 52.41% 315.0/601 +17 ELO
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
{
// Try to reduce non-pv search depth by one ply if move seems not problematic,
// if the move fails high will be re-searched at full depth.
- if ( depth >= 2*OnePly
+ if ( depth >= 3*OnePly
&& moveCount >= LMRPVMoves
&& !dangerous
&& !moveIsCapture