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Eliminate ONE_PLY
Simplification that eliminates ONE_PLY, based on a suggestion in the forum that support for fractional plies has never been used, and @mcostalba's openness to the idea of eliminating it. We lose a little bit of type safety by making Depth an integer, but in return we simplify the code in search.cpp quite significantly. No functional change ------------------------------------------ The argument favoring eliminating ONE_PLY: * The term “ONE_PLY” comes up in a lot of forum posts (474 to date) https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!searchin/fishcooking/ONE_PLY%7Csort:relevance * There is occasionally a commit that breaks invariance of the code with respect to ONE_PLY https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!searchin/fishcooking/ONE_PLY%7Csort:date/fishcooking/ZIPdYj6k0fk/KdNGcPWeBgAJ * To prevent such commits, there is a Travis CI hack that doubles ONE_PLY and rechecks bench * Sustaining ONE_PLY has, alas, not resulted in any improvements to the engine, despite many individuals testing many experiments over 5 years. The strongest argument in favor of preserving ONE_PLY comes from @locutus: “If we use par example ONE_PLY=256 the parameter space is increases by the factor 256. So it seems very unlikely that the optimal setting is in the subspace of ONE_PLY=1.” There is a strong theoretical impediment to fractional depth systems: the transposition table uses depth to determine when a stored result is good enough to supply an answer for a current search. If you have fractional depths, then different pathways to the position can be at fractionally different depths. In the end, there are three separate times when a proposal to remove ONE_PLY was defeated by the suggestion to “give it a few more months.” So… it seems like time to remove this distraction from the community. See the pull request here: https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/pull/2289
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@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ struct TTEntry {
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Move move() const { return (Move )move16; }
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Value value() const { return (Value)value16; }
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Value eval() const { return (Value)eval16; }
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Depth depth() const { return (Depth)(depth8 * int(ONE_PLY)) + DEPTH_OFFSET; }
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Depth depth() const { return (Depth)depth8 + DEPTH_OFFSET; }
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bool is_pv() const { return (bool)(genBound8 & 0x4); }
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Bound bound() const { return (Bound)(genBound8 & 0x3); }
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void save(Key k, Value v, bool pv, Bound b, Depth d, Move m, Value ev);
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