Use the whole kingRing for pawn attackers instead of only the squares directly
around the king. This tends to give quite a lot more kingAttackersCount, so to
compensate and to avoid raising the king danger too fast we lower the values
in the KingAttackWeights array a little bit.
STC:
LLR: 2.95 (-2.94,2.94) [0.00,4.00]
Total: 51892 W: 10723 L: 10369 D: 30800
http://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/
5af6d4dd0ebc5968e652428e
LTC:
LLR: 2.96 (-2.94,2.94) [0.00,4.00]
Total: 24536 W: 3737 L: 3515 D: 17284
http://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/
5af709890ebc5968e65242ac
Credits to user @xoroshiro for the idea of using the kingRing for pawn attackers.
How to continue? It seems that the KingAttackWeights[] array stores values
which are quite Elo-sensitive, yet they have not been tuned with SPSA recently.
There might be easy Elo points to get there.
Closes https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/pull/1597
Bench:
5282815
Torsten Franz (torfranz)
Uri Blass (uriblass)
Vince Negri
Torsten Franz (torfranz)
Uri Blass (uriblass)
Vince Negri
constexpr Value SpaceThreshold = Value(12222);
// KingAttackWeights[PieceType] contains king attack weights by piece type
constexpr Value SpaceThreshold = Value(12222);
// KingAttackWeights[PieceType] contains king attack weights by piece type
- constexpr int KingAttackWeights[PIECE_TYPE_NB] = { 0, 0, 78, 56, 45, 11 };
+ constexpr int KingAttackWeights[PIECE_TYPE_NB] = { 0, 0, 77, 55, 44, 10 };
// Penalties for enemy's safe checks
constexpr int QueenSafeCheck = 780;
// Penalties for enemy's safe checks
constexpr int QueenSafeCheck = 780;
else if (file_of(pos.square<KING>(Us)) == FILE_A)
kingRing[Us] |= shift<EAST>(kingRing[Us]);
else if (file_of(pos.square<KING>(Us)) == FILE_A)
kingRing[Us] |= shift<EAST>(kingRing[Us]);
- kingAttackersCount[Them] = popcount(attackedBy[Us][KING] & pe->pawn_attacks(Them));
+ kingAttackersCount[Them] = popcount(kingRing[Us] & pe->pawn_attacks(Them));
kingAttacksCount[Them] = kingAttackersWeight[Them] = 0;
}
else
kingAttacksCount[Them] = kingAttackersWeight[Them] = 0;
}
else