pawn moves are irreversable unlike other evading moves; pawn is the least valuable piece in the game.
So it makes a lot of sence to assume that evading pawn moves are on average not as good as other evading moves thus can be reduced more.
Passed STC
https://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/
5ee9602e563bc7aa756002dc
LLR: 2.95 (-2.94,2.94) {-0.50,1.50}
Total: 94176 W: 17993 L: 17668 D: 58515
Ptnml(0-2): 1634, 10742, 21989, 11111, 1612
Passed LTC
https://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/
5ee97342563bc7aa75600301
LLR: 2.94 (-2.94,2.94) {0.25,1.75}
Total: 20432 W: 2572 L: 2354 D: 15506
Ptnml(0-2): 146, 1707, 6280, 1949, 134
closes https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/pull/2749
Bench:
5073064
// hence break make_move(). (~2 Elo)
else if ( type_of(move) == NORMAL
&& !pos.see_ge(reverse_move(move)))
// hence break make_move(). (~2 Elo)
else if ( type_of(move) == NORMAL
&& !pos.see_ge(reverse_move(move)))
+ r -= 2 + ttPv - (type_of(movedPiece) == PAWN);
ss->statScore = thisThread->mainHistory[us][from_to(move)]
+ (*contHist[0])[movedPiece][to_sq(move)]
ss->statScore = thisThread->mainHistory[us][from_to(move)]
+ (*contHist[0])[movedPiece][to_sq(move)]