/* Stockfish, a UCI chess playing engine derived from Glaurung 2.1 Copyright (C) 2004-2021 The Stockfish developers (see AUTHORS file) Stockfish is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. Stockfish is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see . */ #ifndef MOVEPICK_H_INCLUDED #define MOVEPICK_H_INCLUDED #include #include #include #include "movegen.h" #include "position.h" #include "types.h" namespace Stockfish { /// StatsEntry stores the stat table value. It is usually a number but could /// be a move or even a nested history. We use a class instead of naked value /// to directly call history update operator<<() on the entry so to use stats /// tables at caller sites as simple multi-dim arrays. template class StatsEntry { T entry; public: void operator=(const T& v) { entry = v; } T* operator&() { return &entry; } T* operator->() { return &entry; } operator const T&() const { return entry; } void operator<<(int bonus) { assert(abs(bonus) <= D); // Ensure range is [-D, D] static_assert(D <= std::numeric_limits::max(), "D overflows T"); entry += bonus - entry * abs(bonus) / D; assert(abs(entry) <= D); } }; /// Stats is a generic N-dimensional array used to store various statistics. /// The first template parameter T is the base type of the array, the second /// template parameter D limits the range of updates in [-D, D] when we update /// values with the << operator, while the last parameters (Size and Sizes) /// encode the dimensions of the array. template struct Stats : public std::array, Size> { typedef Stats stats; void fill(const T& v) { // For standard-layout 'this' points to first struct member assert(std::is_standard_layout::value); typedef StatsEntry entry; entry* p = reinterpret_cast(this); std::fill(p, p + sizeof(*this) / sizeof(entry), v); } }; template struct Stats : public std::array, Size> {}; /// In stats table, D=0 means that the template parameter is not used enum StatsParams { NOT_USED = 0 }; enum StatsType { NoCaptures, Captures }; /// ButterflyHistory records how often quiet moves have been successful or /// unsuccessful during the current search, and is used for reduction and move /// ordering decisions. It uses 2 tables (one for each color) indexed by /// the move's from and to squares, see www.chessprogramming.org/Butterfly_Boards typedef Stats ButterflyHistory; /// At higher depths LowPlyHistory records successful quiet moves near the root /// and quiet moves which are/were in the PV (ttPv). LowPlyHistory is populated during /// iterative deepening and at each new search the data is shifted down by 2 plies constexpr int MAX_LPH = 4; typedef Stats LowPlyHistory; /// CounterMoveHistory stores counter moves indexed by [piece][to] of the previous /// move, see www.chessprogramming.org/Countermove_Heuristic typedef Stats CounterMoveHistory; /// CapturePieceToHistory is addressed by a move's [piece][to][captured piece type] typedef Stats CapturePieceToHistory; /// PieceToHistory is like ButterflyHistory but is addressed by a move's [piece][to] typedef Stats PieceToHistory; /// ContinuationHistory is the combined history of a given pair of moves, usually /// the current one given a previous one. The nested history table is based on /// PieceToHistory instead of ButterflyBoards. typedef Stats ContinuationHistory; /// MovePicker class is used to pick one pseudo-legal move at a time from the /// current position. The most important method is next_move(), which returns a /// new pseudo-legal move each time it is called, until there are no moves left, /// when MOVE_NONE is returned. In order to improve the efficiency of the /// alpha-beta algorithm, MovePicker attempts to return the moves which are most /// likely to get a cut-off first. class MovePicker { enum PickType { Next, Best }; public: MovePicker(const MovePicker&) = delete; MovePicker& operator=(const MovePicker&) = delete; MovePicker(const Position&, Move, Value, const CapturePieceToHistory*); MovePicker(const Position&, Move, Depth, const ButterflyHistory*, const CapturePieceToHistory*, const PieceToHistory**, Square); MovePicker(const Position&, Move, Depth, const ButterflyHistory*, const LowPlyHistory*, const CapturePieceToHistory*, const PieceToHistory**, Move, const Move*, int); Move next_move(bool skipQuiets = false); private: template Move select(Pred); template void score(); ExtMove* begin() { return cur; } ExtMove* end() { return endMoves; } const Position& pos; const ButterflyHistory* mainHistory; const LowPlyHistory* lowPlyHistory; const CapturePieceToHistory* captureHistory; const PieceToHistory** continuationHistory; Move ttMove; ExtMove refutations[3], *cur, *endMoves, *endBadCaptures; int stage; Square recaptureSquare; Value threshold; Depth depth; int ply; ExtMove moves[MAX_MOVES]; }; } // namespace Stockfish #endif // #ifndef MOVEPICK_H_INCLUDED