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Better document mate and stalemate detection

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In particular add that we can have an harmless false positive
in case StopRequest or thread.cutoff_occurred() are set.

Reported by David Lee.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
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Marco Costalba
2011-10-18 12:24:47 +02:00
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@@ -1244,9 +1244,11 @@ split_point_start: // At split points actual search starts from here
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// Step 20. Check for mate and stalemate
// All legal moves have been searched and if there are
// no legal moves, it must be mate or stalemate.
// If one move was excluded return fail low score.
// All legal moves have been searched and if there are no legal moves, it
// must be mate or stalemate. Note that we can have a false positive in
// case of StopRequest or thread.cutoff_occurred() are set, but this is
// harmless because return value is discarded anyhow in the parent nodes.
// If we are in a singular extension search then return a fail low score.
if (!SpNode && !moveCount)
return excludedMove ? oldAlpha : inCheck ? value_mated_in(ss->ply) : VALUE_DRAW;