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GuardianRM 41cc4eb953 Non-linear bonus for pawn count
This patch introduces a non-linear bonus for pawns, along with some
(linear) corrections for the other pieces types.

The original values were obtained by a massive non-linear tuning of both
pawns and other pieces by GuardianRM, while Alain Savard and Chris Cain
later simplified the patch by observing that, apart from the pawn case, the
tuned corrections were in fact almost affine and could be incorporated in
our current code base via the piece values in types.h (offset) and the diagonal
of the quadratic matrix (slope). See discussion in PR#1725 :
https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/pull/1725

STC:
LLR: 2.97 (-2.94,2.94) [0.00,5.00]
Total: 42948 W: 9662 L: 9317 D: 23969
http://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/5b6ff6e60ebc5902bdba1d87

LTC:
LLR: 2.97 (-2.94,2.94) [0.00,5.00]
Total: 19683 W: 3409 L: 3206 D: 13068
http://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/5b702dbd0ebc5902bdba216b

How to continue from there?
- Maybe the non-linearity for the pawn value could be somewhat tempered
  again and a simpler linear correction for pawns would work?

Closes https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/pull/1734

Bench: 4681496
2018-08-12 18:40:11 +02:00

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/*
Stockfish, a UCI chess playing engine derived from Glaurung 2.1
Copyright (C) 2004-2008 Tord Romstad (Glaurung author)
Copyright (C) 2008-2015 Marco Costalba, Joona Kiiski, Tord Romstad
Copyright (C) 2015-2018 Marco Costalba, Joona Kiiski, Gary Linscott, Tord Romstad
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 <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
*/
#include <algorithm> // For std::min
#include <cassert>
#include <cstring> // For std::memset
#include "material.h"
#include "thread.h"
using namespace std;
namespace {
// Polynomial material imbalance parameters
constexpr int QuadraticOurs[][PIECE_TYPE_NB] = {
// OUR PIECES
// pair pawn knight bishop rook queen
{1443 }, // Bishop pair
{ 40, 0 }, // Pawn
{ 32, 255, -67 }, // Knight OUR PIECES
{ 0, 104, 4, 0 }, // Bishop
{ -26, -2, 47, 105, -221 }, // Rook
{-189, 24, 117, 133, -134, -10 } // Queen
};
constexpr int QuadraticTheirs[][PIECE_TYPE_NB] = {
// THEIR PIECES
// pair pawn knight bishop rook queen
{ 0 }, // Bishop pair
{ 36, 0 }, // Pawn
{ 9, 63, 0 }, // Knight OUR PIECES
{ 59, 65, 42, 0 }, // Bishop
{ 46, 39, 24, -24, 0 }, // Rook
{ 97, 100, -42, 137, 268, 0 } // Queen
};
constexpr int PawnCount[] = { 0, 304, 144, -320, -560, -704, -672, -464, -320 };
// Endgame evaluation and scaling functions are accessed directly and not through
// the function maps because they correspond to more than one material hash key.
Endgame<KXK> EvaluateKXK[] = { Endgame<KXK>(WHITE), Endgame<KXK>(BLACK) };
Endgame<KBPsK> ScaleKBPsK[] = { Endgame<KBPsK>(WHITE), Endgame<KBPsK>(BLACK) };
Endgame<KQKRPs> ScaleKQKRPs[] = { Endgame<KQKRPs>(WHITE), Endgame<KQKRPs>(BLACK) };
Endgame<KPsK> ScaleKPsK[] = { Endgame<KPsK>(WHITE), Endgame<KPsK>(BLACK) };
Endgame<KPKP> ScaleKPKP[] = { Endgame<KPKP>(WHITE), Endgame<KPKP>(BLACK) };
// Helper used to detect a given material distribution
bool is_KXK(const Position& pos, Color us) {
return !more_than_one(pos.pieces(~us))
&& pos.non_pawn_material(us) >= RookValueMg;
}
bool is_KBPsK(const Position& pos, Color us) {
return pos.non_pawn_material(us) == BishopValueMg
&& pos.count<BISHOP>(us) == 1
&& pos.count<PAWN >(us) >= 1;
}
bool is_KQKRPs(const Position& pos, Color us) {
return !pos.count<PAWN>(us)
&& pos.non_pawn_material(us) == QueenValueMg
&& pos.count<QUEEN>(us) == 1
&& pos.count<ROOK>(~us) == 1
&& pos.count<PAWN>(~us) >= 1;
}
/// imbalance() calculates the imbalance by comparing the piece count of each
/// piece type for both colors.
template<Color Us>
int imbalance(const int pieceCount[][PIECE_TYPE_NB]) {
constexpr Color Them = (Us == WHITE ? BLACK : WHITE);
int bonus = PawnCount[pieceCount[Us][PAWN]];
// Second-degree polynomial material imbalance, by Tord Romstad
for (int pt1 = NO_PIECE_TYPE; pt1 <= QUEEN; ++pt1)
{
if (!pieceCount[Us][pt1])
continue;
int v = 0;
for (int pt2 = NO_PIECE_TYPE; pt2 <= pt1; ++pt2)
v += QuadraticOurs[pt1][pt2] * pieceCount[Us][pt2]
+ QuadraticTheirs[pt1][pt2] * pieceCount[Them][pt2];
bonus += pieceCount[Us][pt1] * v;
}
return bonus;
}
} // namespace
namespace Material {
/// Material::probe() looks up the current position's material configuration in
/// the material hash table. It returns a pointer to the Entry if the position
/// is found. Otherwise a new Entry is computed and stored there, so we don't
/// have to recompute all when the same material configuration occurs again.
Entry* probe(const Position& pos) {
Key key = pos.material_key();
Entry* e = pos.this_thread()->materialTable[key];
if (e->key == key)
return e;
std::memset(e, 0, sizeof(Entry));
e->key = key;
e->factor[WHITE] = e->factor[BLACK] = (uint8_t)SCALE_FACTOR_NORMAL;
Value npm_w = pos.non_pawn_material(WHITE);
Value npm_b = pos.non_pawn_material(BLACK);
Value npm = std::max(EndgameLimit, std::min(npm_w + npm_b, MidgameLimit));
// Map total non-pawn material into [PHASE_ENDGAME, PHASE_MIDGAME]
e->gamePhase = Phase(((npm - EndgameLimit) * PHASE_MIDGAME) / (MidgameLimit - EndgameLimit));
// Let's look if we have a specialized evaluation function for this particular
// material configuration. Firstly we look for a fixed configuration one, then
// for a generic one if the previous search failed.
if ((e->evaluationFunction = pos.this_thread()->endgames.probe<Value>(key)) != nullptr)
return e;
for (Color c = WHITE; c <= BLACK; ++c)
if (is_KXK(pos, c))
{
e->evaluationFunction = &EvaluateKXK[c];
return e;
}
// OK, we didn't find any special evaluation function for the current material
// configuration. Is there a suitable specialized scaling function?
const EndgameBase<ScaleFactor>* sf;
if ((sf = pos.this_thread()->endgames.probe<ScaleFactor>(key)) != nullptr)
{
e->scalingFunction[sf->strongSide] = sf; // Only strong color assigned
return e;
}
// We didn't find any specialized scaling function, so fall back on generic
// ones that refer to more than one material distribution. Note that in this
// case we don't return after setting the function.
for (Color c = WHITE; c <= BLACK; ++c)
{
if (is_KBPsK(pos, c))
e->scalingFunction[c] = &ScaleKBPsK[c];
else if (is_KQKRPs(pos, c))
e->scalingFunction[c] = &ScaleKQKRPs[c];
}
if (npm_w + npm_b == VALUE_ZERO && pos.pieces(PAWN)) // Only pawns on the board
{
if (!pos.count<PAWN>(BLACK))
{
assert(pos.count<PAWN>(WHITE) >= 2);
e->scalingFunction[WHITE] = &ScaleKPsK[WHITE];
}
else if (!pos.count<PAWN>(WHITE))
{
assert(pos.count<PAWN>(BLACK) >= 2);
e->scalingFunction[BLACK] = &ScaleKPsK[BLACK];
}
else if (pos.count<PAWN>(WHITE) == 1 && pos.count<PAWN>(BLACK) == 1)
{
// This is a special case because we set scaling functions
// for both colors instead of only one.
e->scalingFunction[WHITE] = &ScaleKPKP[WHITE];
e->scalingFunction[BLACK] = &ScaleKPKP[BLACK];
}
}
// Zero or just one pawn makes it difficult to win, even with a small material
// advantage. This catches some trivial draws like KK, KBK and KNK and gives a
// drawish scale factor for cases such as KRKBP and KmmKm (except for KBBKN).
if (!pos.count<PAWN>(WHITE) && npm_w - npm_b <= BishopValueMg)
e->factor[WHITE] = uint8_t(npm_w < RookValueMg ? SCALE_FACTOR_DRAW :
npm_b <= BishopValueMg ? 4 : 14);
if (!pos.count<PAWN>(BLACK) && npm_b - npm_w <= BishopValueMg)
e->factor[BLACK] = uint8_t(npm_b < RookValueMg ? SCALE_FACTOR_DRAW :
npm_w <= BishopValueMg ? 4 : 14);
// Evaluate the material imbalance. We use PIECE_TYPE_NONE as a place holder
// for the bishop pair "extended piece", which allows us to be more flexible
// in defining bishop pair bonuses.
const int pieceCount[COLOR_NB][PIECE_TYPE_NB] = {
{ pos.count<BISHOP>(WHITE) > 1, pos.count<PAWN>(WHITE), pos.count<KNIGHT>(WHITE),
pos.count<BISHOP>(WHITE) , pos.count<ROOK>(WHITE), pos.count<QUEEN >(WHITE) },
{ pos.count<BISHOP>(BLACK) > 1, pos.count<PAWN>(BLACK), pos.count<KNIGHT>(BLACK),
pos.count<BISHOP>(BLACK) , pos.count<ROOK>(BLACK), pos.count<QUEEN >(BLACK) } };
e->value = int16_t((imbalance<WHITE>(pieceCount) - imbalance<BLACK>(pieceCount)) / 16);
return e;
}
} // namespace Material