maximum depth during a "go movetime ..." search. This prevents
Stockfish from hanging forever after finding a mate in two or
three while running a test suite at a level of a few seconds
per move.
No functional change when playing games at normal time controls.
Marco's new code for evaluating two unstoppable passed pawns where
one pawn promotes a single ply before the other tried to detect
cases where the pawn that promotes first could immediately capture
the pawn that promotes a ply later, but didn't work in cases where
the two pawns are on the same file. An example of this is the
following position:
8/8/3K4/2P5/2p5/3k4/8/8 w - -
With the new code, such positions are handled correctly.
Instead of checking the time every 100 nodes in the last second,
and every 1000 nodes in the last five seconds, Stockfish now checks
every 1000 nodes in the last second and every 5000 nodes in the last
five seconds. This was tested in 1036 games at a time control of
40 moves/10 seconds, and no losses on time occured.
Also fixed a bug pointed out by Marco: In infinite mode, myTime
is actually 0, but of course we still don't want to check the time
more frequently than the standard once per 30000 nodes in this
case.
It turned out that we used do_move_bb to update the king and rook
bitboards when making and unmaking castling moves, which obviously
doesn't work in Chess960, where the source and destination squares
for the king or rook could be identical.
No functional change in normal chess.
Because of a hard-to-spot single-character bug in connected_moves(),
the discovered check code had no effect whatsoever. The condition
in the if (...) statement at the beginning of the code would always
return false.
Thanks to Edsel Apostol for pointing out this bug!
The following new targets were added:
* osx-icc32: 32-bit x86 compiled with icpc.
* osx-icc64: 64-bit x86 compiled with icpc.
* osx-icc32-profile: 32-bit x86 compiled with icpc and pgo.
* osx-icc64-profile: 64-bit x86 compiled with icpc and pgo.
previous used move_is_legal to verify that the move from the TT
was legal, and the old version of move_is_legal only works when
the side to move is not in check. Fixed this by adding a separate,
slower version of move_is_legal which works even when the side to
move is in check.
down the transposition table.
When the search was stopped before a fail high at the root was
resolved, Stockfish would often print a very short PV, sometimes
consisting of just a single move. This was not only a little
user-unfriendly, but also harmed the strength a little in
ponder-on games: Single-move PVs mean that there is no ponder
move to search.
It is perhaps worth considering to remove the pv[][] array
entirely, and always build the entire PV from the transposition
table. This would simplify the source code somewhat and probably
make the program infinitesimally faster, at the expense of
sometimes getting shorter PVs or PVs with rubbish moves near
the end.
Added the UCI_LimitStrength and the UCI_Elo options, with an Elo
range of 2100-2900. When UCI_LimitStrength is enabled, the number
of threads is set to 1, and the search speed is slowed down according
to the chosen Elo level.
Todo:
1. Implement Elo levels below 2100 by blundering on purpose and/or
crippling the evaluation.
2. Automatically calibrate the maximum Elo by measuring the CPU speed
during program initialization, perhaps by doing some bitboard
computations and measuring the time taken.
No functional change when UCI_LimitStrength is false (the default).
a static eval cached in the transposition table would always equal the static
eval of the current position. This is in general not true, because the cached
value could be from a previous search with different evaluation parameter
settings, or from a search from the opposite side (Stockfish's evaluation
function is assymmetric by default).
It turned out that the input sent to set_option_value() when it is called by
set_option() in uci.cpp always started with at least one whitespace. In most
cases, this is not a problem, because the majority of UCI options have numeric
values. It did, however, cause a problem for UCI options with non-numerical
values, like options of type CHECK and COMBO. In particular, changing the
value of an option of type CHECK didn't work, because the comparisons with
"true" and "false" would always return false. This means that the "Ponder"
and "UCI_Chess960" options haven't been working for a while.
Tord Romstad