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31 Commits
Author SHA1 Message Date
Joost VandeVondeleandJoona Kiiski 2d96e8fbe9 Partial insertion sort
the order of elements returned by std::partition is implementation defined (since not stable) and could depend on the version of libstdc++ linked.
As std::stable_partition was tested to be too slow (http://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/585cdfd00ebc5903140c6082).
Instead combine partition with our custom implementation of insert_sort, which fixes this issue.
Implementation based on a patch by mstembera (http://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/58d4d3460ebc59035df3315c), which suggests some benefit by itself.
Higher depth moves are all sorted (INT_MIN version), as in current master.

STC:
LLR: 2.95 (-2.94,2.94) [-3.00,1.00]
Total: 33116 W: 6161 L: 6061 D: 20894

LTC:
LLR: 2.96 (-2.94,2.94) [-3.00,1.00]
Total: 88703 W: 11572 L: 11540 D: 65591

Bench: 6256522

Closes #1058
Closes #1065
2017-04-20 11:19:01 -07:00
Joost VandeVondeleandJoona Kiiski 57a3334322 Prefer std::find over a hand-coded loop
tested for no regression.

STC:
LLR: 2.95 (-2.94,2.94) [-3.00,1.00]
Total: 37378 W: 6649 L: 6556 D: 24173

No functional change.

Closes #1071
2017-04-17 09:25:27 -07:00
Joost VandeVondeleandJoona Kiiski c5de4080db Introduce assert for stats update
Make sure updates to the stats are done in a stable way.

No functional change

Closes #1038
Closes #1037
2017-03-25 17:57:07 -07:00
Joost VandeVondeleandJoona Kiiski 3b7c1a17e4 Increase maximum number of threads
a single Xeon Phi can present itself as a single numa node with up to 288 threads (4 threads per hardware core).
Tested to work as expected with a Xeon Phi CPU 7230 up to 256 threads.

No functional change

Closes #1045
2017-03-25 10:35:17 -07:00
Joost VandeVondeleandJoona Kiiski c80d52c845 History stat bonus: Move condition to bonus calculation
about 0.5% speedup.

No functional change

Closes #1034
2017-03-17 14:46:47 -07:00
Joost VandeVondeleandJoona Kiiski d490bb9973 Always have counterMoves associated
Simplifies away all associated checks, leading to a ~0.5% speedup.
The code now explicitly checks if moves are OK, rather than using nullptr checks.

Verified for no regression:

LLR: 2.96 (-2.94,2.94) [-3.00,1.00]
Total: 32218 W: 5762 L: 5660 D: 20796

No functional change

Closes #1021
2017-03-08 18:35:23 -08:00
Joost VandeVondeleandJoona Kiiski 1810c4d758 Simplify skipping of plies with helper threads
Replaces the HalfDensity array with an equivalent, compact implementation.
Includes suggestions by mcostalba & snicolet.

No functional change

Closes #1004
2017-02-26 16:41:58 -08:00
Joost VandeVondeleandJoona Kiiski 1e814e0ca0 Fix makefile: 32 bit builds without optimization.
Fixes failing build for

make ARCH=x86-32 clean && make ARCH=x86-32 optimize=no build

by passing -m32 also to the link step.

Extend travis testing accordingly.

No functional change.

Closes #999
2017-02-14 21:11:44 -08:00
Joost VandeVondeleandMarco Costalba d8f683760c Adjust copyright headers to 2017 (#965)
No functional change.
2017-01-11 08:46:29 +01:00
Joost VandeVondeleandMarco Costalba ba15781be8 New shell scripts for testing, used for travis CI (#957)
Perform more complex verification and validation.

- signature.sh : extract and optionally compare Bench/Signature/Node count.
- perft.sh : verify perft counts for a number of positions.
- instrumented.sh : run a few commands or uci sequences through valgrind/sanitizer instrumented binaries.
- reprosearch.sh : verify reproducibility of search.

These script can be used from directly from the command line in the src directory.

Update travis script to use these shell scripts.

No functional change.
2017-01-09 10:30:57 +01:00
Joost VandeVondeleandMarco Costalba 1c316c41bb Correctly zero-initialize MainThread
It can be used uninitialized in time management.
Fixes all valgrind errors on './stockfish go wtime 8000 btime 8000 winc 500 binc 500'

This is one (of the many) quirks of C++. There is a subtle difference between:

new Foo
new Foo()

The first statement calls the default constructor (that in case of a POD leaves data members
uninitialized), the second one performs a value-initialization (that in case of POD is
equivalent to a zero-initialization)

See:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/620137/do-the-parentheses-after-the-type-name-make-a-difference-with-new
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5116541/difference-between-creating-object-with-or-without

No functional change.
2017-01-07 10:02:43 +01:00
Joost VandeVondeleandMarco Costalba 90b052462c Zero init fromToStats in constructor. (#953)
Extend commit fe99de to fromToStats, which fixes the last valgrind errors on 
a simple 'go depth 12' at startup.

No functional change.
2017-01-06 10:43:18 +01:00
Joost VandeVondeleandMarco Costalba 6b16ebc825 Use consistent variable names for counterMoveStats (#949)
Unify naming in movepick and search, by adopting the latter convention (cmh,fmh,fmh2).

No functional change.
2017-01-02 09:36:43 +01:00
Joost VandeVondeleandMarco Costalba af7412e58a Explicitly use alpha+1 for beta in NonPV search (#939)
Fixes the only exception, in razoring.

The code already does assert(PvNode || (alpha == beta - 1)), and it can be verified by studying the program flow that this is indeed the case, also for the modified line.

No functional change.
2016-12-25 10:34:48 +01:00
Joost VandeVondeleandMarco Costalba 1ceaea701b Simplify threshold handling for probcut. (#936)
Just use greater equal as this is what see_ge does now.

passed STC
LLR: 2.94 (-2.94,2.94) [-3.00,1.00]
Total: 226506 W: 39755 L: 39978 D: 146773

passed LTC
LLR: 2.95 (-2.94,2.94) [-3.00,1.00]
Total: 138483 W: 17450 L: 17479 D: 103554

Bench: 5212921
2016-12-22 16:02:32 +01:00
Joost VandeVondeleandMarco Costalba ee22b61f5e Use DEPTH_ZERO initializer for depth in qsearch (#931)
Simplifies the main search function.

No functional change.
2016-12-20 11:17:38 +01:00
Joost VandeVondeleandMarco Costalba 1b62d413c1 Clean-up skipEarlyPruning (#921)
make skipEarlyPruning a search argument instead of managing this by hand.

Verified for no regression at STC:
LLR: 2.96 (-2.94,2.94) [-3.00,1.00]
Total: 96754 W: 17089 L: 17095 D: 62570

No functional change.
2016-12-11 20:05:25 +01:00
Joost VandeVondeleandMarco Costalba a47bbca0ea Refactor bonus and penalty calculation (#917)
* Refactor bonus and penalty calculation

Compute common terms in a helper function.

No functional change.

* Further refactoring

Remove some parenthesis that are now useless.
Define prevSq once, use repeatedly.

No functional change.

bench: 5884767 (bench of previous patch is wrong)
2016-12-05 18:58:12 +01:00
Joost VandeVondeleandMarco Costalba 1e76ba7cec WeakQueen Parameter tweak
New tuned values.

passed STC
http://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/5834573c0ebc5903140c507b
LLR: 3.16 (-2.94,2.94) [0.00,4.00]
Total: 157415 W: 27917 L: 27227 D: 102271

passed LTC
http://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/58388d2b0ebc5903140c523b
LLR: 2.95 (-2.94,2.94) [0.00,4.00]
Total: 95405 W: 12350 L: 11959 D: 71096

Bench: 4912054
2016-12-01 14:55:00 +01:00
Joost VandeVondeleandMarco Costalba 8ceb1ff53b Fix undefined behavior
This fixes #892. Undefined behavior as seen with
clang -fsanitize=undefined.

No functional change.
2016-11-26 16:49:59 +01:00
Joost VandeVondeleandMarco Costalba 6036303bb6 Avoid touching source files in profile-build
This refines the profile-build target to avoid 'touch'ing the sources,
keeping meaningful modification dates and avoiding editor warnings like vi's:

WARNING: The file has been changed since reading it!!!
Do you really want to write to it (y/n)?

Instead of touching sources, the (instrumented) object files are removed,
which has the same effect of rebuilding them in the next step.

As a side effect, this simplifies the Makefile a bit.

No functional change.
2016-11-20 10:51:42 +01:00
Joost VandeVondeleandMarco Costalba cddc8d4546 More accurate 'go nodes' searches at low count
Makes the actual number of nodes searched match closely
the number of nodes requested, by increasing the frequency
of checking the number of nodes searched at low node count.
All other searches retain the default checking frequency of
once per 4096 nodes, and are thus unaffected.

Passed STC as non-regression
LLR: 2.95 (-2.94,2.94) [-3.00,1.00]
Total: 26643 W: 4766 L: 4655 D: 17222

No functional change.
2016-11-19 08:47:41 +01:00
Joost VandeVondele 61c727fdcb Allow benches with more than 2G nodes.
./stockfish bench 128 1 4000000000 default nodes

    crashes before, works after.

    No functional change.
2016-11-07 13:35:28 +01:00
Joost VandeVondeleandMarco Costalba 876f07cbee Fix undefined behaviour with unaligned loads in syzygy code
Casting a pointer to a different type with stricter alignment
requirements yields to implementation dependent behaviour.
Practicaly everything is fine for common platforms because the
CPU/OS/compiler will generate correct code, but anyhow it is
better to be safe than sorry.

Testing with dbg_hit_on() shows that the unalignment accesses are
very rare (below 0.1%) so it makes sense to split the code in a
fast path for the common case and a slower path as a fallback.

No functional change (verified with TB enabled).
2016-11-06 11:48:07 +01:00
Joost VandeVondeleandMarco Costalba 52cb348023 Reproducible searches after ucinewgame
Fixes issue #859.

thisThread->callsCnt in search<>() was different (by 1) for the first and second game played.

No functional change.
2016-11-05 22:25:55 +01:00
Joost VandeVondeleandMarco Costalba 67d19447f4 Makefile fix for sanitize
Small fixes for compilation with sanitize=yes optimize=no,
by always adding -fsanitize=undefined to the LDFLAGS as required.
Updates config-sanity to check&report the status of the flag.

No functional change.
2016-11-05 08:15:56 +01:00
Joost VandeVondeleandMarco Costalba c43146edb7 Travis-ci: integrate perft checking
makes verifying perft numbers for a few positions
part of travis-ci. Adds <5s testing time.

No functional change.
2016-11-05 08:03:34 +01:00
Joost VandevondeleandMarco Costalba 40b1b27178 Fix a series of undefined behaviours
Avoid shifting negative signed integers and use typed
enum to avoids decrementing a variable beyond its defined
range, like:
       for (Rank r = RANK_8; r >= RANK_1; --r)

Changes were tested individually and passed SPRT[-3, 1].

With this patch gcc --sanitize builds cleanly.

No functional change.
2016-10-27 06:44:41 +02:00
Joost VandevondeleandMarco Costalba 3686e719a1 Simplify next_move by always scoring evasions
For a default bench, this fixes the last valgrind
error (jump on uninitialised value).

Passed STC:
LLR: 2.95 (-2.94,2.94) [-3.00,1.00]
Total: 187869 W: 33303 L: 33463 D: 121103

No functional change.
2016-10-20 17:17:14 +02:00
Joost Vandevondele 9893e7fd53 Make valgrind testing part of travis ci. 2016-10-19 21:29:00 +02:00
Joost VandevondeleandMarco Costalba 4b0043ae7c Use fixed depth bench to make PGO builds more reproducible
Discussed on fishcooking

proposal and objdump verification:
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/fishcooking/4_ausUwMXP0/EGPsMYqOFAAJ

verified no significant speed difference between depth and time:
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/fishcooking/4_ausUwMXP0/KazW5QZmFgAJ

stockfish_time - stats:
mean = 2207232.56        std = 7079.51        std/mean = 0.003207

stockfish_depth - stats:
mean = 2201783.57        std = 6356.69        std/mean = 0.002887

No functional change
2016-09-18 08:13:34 +02:00