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Better document null search window 

Hopefully this patch makes the code more:

* Self-documenting: Null search is always a zero window search,
  because it is testing for a fail high. It should never be done
  on a full window! The current code only works because we don't
  do it at PV nodes, and therefore (alpha, beta) = (beta-1, beta):
  that's the kind of "clever" trick we should avoid.

* Idiot-proof: If we want to enable null search at PV nodes, all we
  need to do now is comment out the !PvNode condition. It's that simple!

In theory, null search should not be done at PV nodes, because PV nodes
should never fail high. But in practice, they DO fail high, because of
aspiration windows, and search inconsistencies, for example. So it makes
sense to keep that flexibility in the code.

No functional change.
pull/358/head
Lucas Braesch 2014-02-04 08:18:19 +01:00 committed by Marco Costalba
parent e88ef801af
commit e5c3effdb1
1 changed files with 4 additions and 4 deletions
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@ -635,8 +635,8 @@ namespace {
pos.do_null_move(st);
(ss+1)->skipNullMove = true;
nullValue = depth-R < ONE_PLY ? -qsearch<NonPV, false>(pos, ss+1, -beta, -alpha, DEPTH_ZERO)
: - search<NonPV>(pos, ss+1, -beta, -alpha, depth-R, !cutNode);
nullValue = depth-R < ONE_PLY ? -qsearch<NonPV, false>(pos, ss+1, -beta, -beta+1, DEPTH_ZERO)
: - search<NonPV>(pos, ss+1, -beta, -beta+1, depth-R, !cutNode);
(ss+1)->skipNullMove = false;
pos.undo_null_move();
@ -651,8 +651,8 @@ namespace {
// Do verification search at high depths
ss->skipNullMove = true;
Value v = depth-R < ONE_PLY ? qsearch<NonPV, false>(pos, ss, alpha, beta, DEPTH_ZERO)
: search<NonPV>(pos, ss, alpha, beta, depth-R, false);
Value v = depth-R < ONE_PLY ? qsearch<NonPV, false>(pos, ss, beta-1, beta, DEPTH_ZERO)
: search<NonPV>(pos, ss, beta-1, beta, depth-R, false);
ss->skipNullMove = false;
if (v >= beta)