Merge branch 'master' of github.com:official-stockfish/Stockfish into nnue-player-merge

# Conflicts:
#	README.md

AUTHORS

@@ -79,6 +79,7 @@ Jean Gauthier (OuaisBla)
 Jean-Francois Romang (jromang)
 Jekaa
 Jerry Donald Watson (jerrydonaldwatson)
+jjoshua2
 Jonathan Calovski (Mysseno)
 Jonathan Dumale (SFisGOD)
 Joost VandeVondele (vondele)

src/Makefile

@@ -296,6 +296,9 @@ ifeq ($(COMP),gcc)
 	ifneq ($(KERNEL),Darwin)
 	   LDFLAGS += -Wl,--no-as-needed
 	endif
+	
+	gccversion = $(shell $(CXX) --version)
+	gccisclang = $(findstring clang,$(gccversion))
 endif
 
 ifeq ($(COMP),mingw)
@@ -510,18 +513,28 @@ endif
 ### needs access to the optimization flags.
 ifeq ($(optimize),yes)
 ifeq ($(debug), no)
-	ifeq ($(comp),$(filter $(comp),gcc clang))
+	ifeq ($(comp),clang)
+		CXXFLAGS += -flto=thin
+		LDFLAGS += $(CXXFLAGS)
+
+# GCC and CLANG use different methods for parallelizing LTO and CLANG pretends to be
+# GCC on some systems.
+	else ifeq ($(comp),gcc)
+	ifeq ($(gccisclang),)
 		CXXFLAGS += -flto
+		LDFLAGS += $(CXXFLAGS) -flto=jobserver
+	else
+		CXXFLAGS += -flto=thin
 		LDFLAGS += $(CXXFLAGS)
 	endif
 
 # To use LTO and static linking on windows, the tool chain requires a recent gcc:
 # gcc version 10.1 in msys2 or TDM-GCC version 9.2 are know to work, older might not.
 # So, only enable it for a cross from Linux by default.
-	ifeq ($(comp),mingw)
+	else ifeq ($(comp),mingw)
 	ifeq ($(KERNEL),Linux)
 		CXXFLAGS += -flto
-		LDFLAGS += $(CXXFLAGS)
+		LDFLAGS += $(CXXFLAGS) -flto=jobserver
 	endif
 	endif
 endif
@@ -707,7 +720,7 @@ config-sanity:
 	@test "$(comp)" = "gcc" || test "$(comp)" = "icc" || test "$(comp)" = "mingw" || test "$(comp)" = "clang"
 
 $(EXE): $(OBJS)
-	$(CXX) -o $@ $(OBJS) $(LDFLAGS)
+	+$(CXX) -o $@ $(OBJS) $(LDFLAGS)
 
 clang-profile-make:
 	$(MAKE) ARCH=$(ARCH) COMP=$(COMP) \

src/search.cpp

@@ -827,7 +827,7 @@ namespace {
         && (ss-1)->statScore < 23824
         &&  eval >= beta
         &&  eval >= ss->staticEval
-        &&  ss->staticEval >= beta - 33 * depth - 33 * improving + 112 * ttPv + 311
+        &&  ss->staticEval >= beta - 28 * depth - 28 * improving + 94 * ttPv + 200
         && !excludedMove
         &&  pos.non_pawn_material(us)
         && (ss->ply >= thisThread->nmpMinPly || us != thisThread->nmpColor))
@@ -1055,7 +1055,7 @@ moves_loop: // When in check, search starts from here
                   && !(PvNode && abs(bestValue) < 2)
                   && PieceValue[MG][type_of(movedPiece)] >= PieceValue[MG][type_of(pos.piece_on(to_sq(move)))]
                   && !ss->inCheck
-                  && ss->staticEval + 267 + 391 * lmrDepth
+                  && ss->staticEval + 178 + 261 * lmrDepth
                      + PieceValue[MG][type_of(pos.piece_on(to_sq(move)))] <= alpha)
                   continue;
 
@@ -1072,15 +1072,14 @@ moves_loop: // When in check, search starts from here
       // then that move is singular and should be extended. To verify this we do
       // a reduced search on all the other moves but the ttMove and if the
       // result is lower than ttValue minus a margin, then we will extend the ttMove.
-      if (    depth >= 6
+      if (    depth >= 7
           &&  move == ttMove
           && !rootNode
           && !excludedMove // Avoid recursive singular search
        /* &&  ttValue != VALUE_NONE Already implicit in the next condition */
           &&  abs(ttValue) < VALUE_KNOWN_WIN
           && (tte->bound() & BOUND_LOWER)
-          &&  tte->depth() >= depth - 3
-          &&  pos.legal(move))
+          &&  tte->depth() >= depth - 3)
       {
           Value singularBeta = ttValue - ((formerPv + 4) * depth) / 2;
           Depth singularDepth = (depth - 1 + 3 * formerPv) / 2;
@@ -1160,7 +1159,7 @@ moves_loop: // When in check, search starts from here
       // Step 16. Reduced depth search (LMR, ~200 Elo). If the move fails high it will be
       // re-searched at full depth.
       if (    depth >= 3
-          &&  moveCount > 1 + 2 * rootNode
+          &&  moveCount > 1 + 2 * rootNode + 2 * (PvNode && abs(bestValue) < 2)
           && (!rootNode || thisThread->best_move_count(move) == 0)
           && (  !captureOrPromotion
               || moveCountPruning