Stockfish Development Versions are build automatically if there are changes on the master branch in the git repository (https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish). Use it at your own risk.
They are compiled with gcc 11.2/mingw 10 on Ubuntu 22.04.

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Author: Vizvezdenec
Date: Tue Jan 7 11:33:53 2020 +0100
Timestamp: 1578393233

Introduce king infiltration bonus

Add king infiltration bonus to initiative calculation. Idea is somewhat similar
to outflanking - endgames are hard to win if each king is on it side of the board.
So this adds extra bonus for one of kings crossing the middle line.

STC
LLR: 2.94 (-2.94,2.94) {-1.00,3.00}
Total: 10533 W: 2372 L: 2242 D: 5919 Elo +4.29
Ptnml(0-2): 196, 1198, 2352, 1316, 202
http://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/5e0e6fd1e97ea42ea89da9b3

LTC
LLR: 2.96 (-2.94,2.94) {0.00,2.00}
Total: 15074 W: 2563 L: 2381 D: 10130 Elo +4.20
Ptnml(0-2): 118, 1500, 4111, 1663, 129
http://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/5e0e857ae97ea42ea89da9cc

Closes https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/pull/2471

Bench: 5146339
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Author: Stefan Geschwentner
Date: Tue Jan 7 11:18:50 2020 +0100
Timestamp: 1578392330

Tweak futility pruning

Exclude moves with a good history total from futility pruning. This adds
a condition for quiet futility pruning: history total has to be low.

STC:
LLR: 2.94 (-2.94,2.94) {-1.00,3.00}
Total: 20095 W: 4503 L: 4342 D: 11250 Elo +2.78
Ptnml(0-2): 362, 2380, 4422, 2486, 388
http://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/5e0d7c5387585b1706b68370

LTC:
LLR: 2.94 (-2.94,2.94) {0.00,2.00}
Total: 53016 W: 8587 L: 8302 D: 36127 Elo +1.87
Ptnml(0-2): 353, 5397, 14751, 5545, 423
http://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/5e0e30d062fb773bb7047e95

Closes https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/pull/2472

Bench: 5215200
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Author: Alain SAVARD
Date: Tue Jan 7 11:00:54 2020 +0100
Timestamp: 1578391254

Use a faster implementation of Static Exchange Evaluation

SEE (Static Exchange Evaluation) is a critical component, so we might
indulge some tricks to make it faster. Another pull request #2469 showed
some speedup by removing templates, this version uses Ronald de Man
(@syzygy1) SEE implementation which also unrolls the for loop by
suppressing the min_attacker() helper function and exits as soon as
the last swap is conclusive.

See Ronald de Man version there:
https://github.com/syzygy1/Cfish/blob/master/src/position.c

Patch testes against pull request #2469:
LLR: 2.95 (-2.94,2.94) {-1.00,3.00}
Total: 19365 W: 3771 L: 3634 D: 11960 Elo +2.46
Ptnml(0-2): 241, 1984, 5099, 2092, 255
http://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/5e10eb135e5436dd91b27ba3

And since we are using new SPRT statistics, and that both pull requests
finished with less than 20000 games I also tested against master as
a speed-up:

LLR: 2.99 (-2.94,2.94) {-1.00,3.00}
Total: 18878 W: 3674 L: 3539 D: 11665 Elo +2.48
Ptnml(0-2): 193, 1999, 4966, 2019, 250
http://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/5e10febf12ef906c8b388745

Non functional change
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Author: ppigazzini
Date: Sat Jan 4 21:54:20 2020 +0100
Timestamp: 1578171260

Update Readme.md

Update fishtest server URL, fix a broken wiki link, fix a typo.
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Author: xoto10
Date: Wed Dec 25 00:12:07 2019 +0100
Timestamp: 1577229127

Tune search constants

STC failed red :
LLR: -2.95 (-2.94,2.94) [0.00,3.50]
Total: 41667 W: 9094 L: 9138 D: 23435 Elo -0.37
https://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/5df7bb566932658fe9b45253

LTC failed yellow :
LLR: -2.96 (-2.94,2.94) [0.00,3.50]
Total: 113667 W: 18330 L: 18196 D: 77141 Elo +0.41
https://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/5df562386932658fe9b451c7

VLTC turned green :
LLR: 2.95 (-2.94,2.94) [0.00,3.50]
Total: 128630 W: 17747 L: 17273 D: 93610 Elo +1.28
https://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/5df9054dcde01bf360ab78db

Bench 5180012
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Author: Guenther Demetz
Date: Tue Dec 10 08:07:34 2019 +0100
Timestamp: 1575961654

Refine improving-logic

Don't rely on the assumption that we are improving after surviving a
check. Instead, compare with the static eval of 2 moves before.

STC
https://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/5dedfd7f3cff9a249bb9e44d
LLR: 2.95 (-2.94,2.94) [-1.50,4.50]
Total: 38859 W: 8621 L: 8397 D: 21841 Elo +2.00

LTC
https://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/5dee1b5a3cff9a249bb9e465
LLR: 2.95 (-2.94,2.94) [0.00,3.50]
Total: 51130 W: 8308 L: 7996 D: 34826 Elo +2.12

Bench: 5371271
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Author: lantonov
Date: Tue Dec 10 01:10:19 2019 +0100
Timestamp: 1575936619

Tuned razor and futility margins

Tuning was done with Bayesian optimisation with the following parameters:
Acquisition function: Expected Improvement
alpha: 0.05
xi: 1e-4
TC: 60+0.6
Number of iterations: 100
Initial points: 5
Batch size: 20 games

STC
http://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/5dee291e3cff9a249bb9e470
LLR: 2.97 (-2.94,2.94) [-1.50,4.50]
Total: 19586 W: 4382 L: 4214 D: 10990 Elo +2.98

LTC
http://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/5dee4e273cff9a249bb9e473
LLR: 2.95 (-2.94,2.94) [0.00,3.50]
Total: 38840 W: 6315 L: 6036 D: 26489 Elo +2.50

Bench: 5033242
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Author: xoto10
Date: Tue Dec 10 01:04:07 2019 +0100
Timestamp: 1575936247

TrappedRook value and King positional tables

Small tweak to increase the TrappedRook penalty. Nice idea by Alain Savard!

STC
LLR: 2.96 (-2.94,2.94) [-1.50,4.50]
Total: 36977 W: 8212 L: 7993 D: 20772 Elo +2.06
https://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/5dee1c1e3cff9a249bb9e46d

LTC
LLR: 2.95 (-2.94,2.94) [0.00,3.50]
Total: 36395 W: 6070 L: 5795 D: 24530 Elo +2.63
https://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/5dee90153cff9a249bb9e479

Closes https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/pull/2447

Bench: 5176990

-------------------------

Comments by Alain Savard:

For the record, the idea was to run an experimental tuning with disabled
castling in the hope to get more hits on the TrappedRook and the king in
the c1- f1-f2-c2 area
http://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/5dec57be51219d7befdc76e1

A first interpretation of that tuning was green STC (0, 4) and yellow LTC (0, 4):
http://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/5ded04bc51219d7befdc773a
http://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/5ded1e7a51219d7befdc7760

Thank you @xoto for trying this. Indeed, because the tuned Kc2 and Kf2 values
were quite different, it was a good idea to try something more neutral.
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Author: Vizvezdenec
Date: Mon Dec 9 00:38:16 2019 +0100
Timestamp: 1575848296

Exclude blockers for king from mobility area

This patch excludes blockers for king from mobility area. It was tried a couple
of times by now but now it passed. Performance is not enormously good but this
patch makes a lot of sence - blockers for king can't really move until king moves
(in most cases) so logic behind it is the same as behind excluding king square
from mobility area.

STC
http://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/5dec388651219d7befdc76be
LLR: 2.95 (-2.94,2.94) [-1.50,4.50]
Total: 6155 W: 1428 L: 1300 D: 3427 Elo +7.23

LTC
http://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/5dec4a3151219d7befdc76d3
LLR: 2.95 (-2.94,2.94) [0.00,3.50]
Total: 120800 W: 19636 L: 19134 D: 82030 Elo +1.44

Bench: 5173081
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Author: Vizvezdenec
Date: Mon Dec 9 00:32:37 2019 +0100
Timestamp: 1575847957

Do last capture extensions for every single node

This patch simplifies latest @MJZ1977 elo gainer. Seems like PvNode check in
condition of last capture extension is not needed. Note - even if this is a
simplification it actually causes this extension to be applied more often, thus
strengthening effect of @MJZ1977's patch.

passed STC
http://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/5deb9a3eb7bdefd50db28d0e
LLR: 2.96 (-2.94,2.94) [-3.00,1.00]
Total: 80244 W: 17421 L: 17414 D: 45409 Elo +0.03

passed LTC
http://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/5deba860b7bdefd50db28d11
LLR: 2.94 (-2.94,2.94) [-3.00,1.00]
Total: 21506 W: 3565 L: 3446 D: 14495 Elo +1.92

Bench: 5097036
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Author: protonspring
Date: Mon Dec 9 00:27:12 2019 +0100
Timestamp: 1575847632

Simplify pruning moves with negative SEE

This patch simplifies pruning moves with negative SEE values.

STC
LLR: 2.95 (-2.94,2.94) [-3.00,1.00]
Total: 18847 W: 4211 L: 4084 D: 10552 Elo +2.34
http://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/5de983f2caa7c610e4d1866e

LTC
LLR: 2.95 (-2.94,2.94) [-3.00,1.00]
Total: 25556 W: 4200 L: 4087 D: 17269 Elo +1.54
http://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/5de99e21caa7c610e4d18676

Bench 5390930
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Author: joergoster
Date: Mon Dec 9 00:16:55 2019 +0100
Timestamp: 1575847015

Fix output of PV lines with invalid scores #2439

As reported on the forum it is possible, on very rare occasions, that we are
trying to print a PV line with an invalid previousScore, although this line
has a valid actual score. This patch fixes output of PV lines with invalid
scores in a MultiPV search. This is a follow-up patch to 8b15961 and makes
the fix finally complete.

The reason is the i <= pvIdx condition which probably is a leftover from the
times there was a special root search function. This check is no longer needed
today and prevents PV lines past the current one (current pvIdx) to be flagged
as updated even though they do have a valid score.

https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/commit/8b15961349e18a9ba113973c53f53913d0cd0fad
https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/fishcooking/PrnoDLvMvro

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Author: xoto10
Date: Mon Dec 9 00:10:47 2019 +0100
Timestamp: 1575846647

Tweak time management (failing eval)

Adjust fallingEval with score change in last 5 iterations. FallingEval adjusts
the time used on a move depending on whether the position score is better or
worse than on the previous move. This change adds a dependency on the score
change in the last 5 iterations of the current search.

Tests with original code:
STC :
LLR: 2.97 (-2.94,2.94) [-1.50,4.50]
Total: 18728 W: 4170 L: 4005 D: 10553 Elo +3.06
https://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/5de68a5bb407ee7bfda68a94

LTC :
LLR: 2.95 (-2.94,2.94) [0.00,3.50]
Total: 180217 W: 29214 L: 28551 D: 122452 Elo +1.28
https://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/5de690a4b407ee7bfda68a9a

Revised code using a simple array instead of a deque and different values
gave a slightly quicker pass at LTC. The merged patch now uses this:

STC :
LLR: 2.96 (-2.94,2.94) [-1.50,4.50]
Total: 18616 W: 4114 L: 3950 D: 10552 Elo +3.06
https://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/5debb790b7bdefd50db28d14

LTC :
LLR: 2.96 (-2.94,2.94) [0.00,3.50]
Total: 134151 W: 21729 L: 21191 D: 91231 Elo +1.39
https://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/5debc13fb7bdefd50db28d19

No functional change
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Author: Joost VandeVondele
Date: Mon Dec 9 00:05:25 2019 +0100
Timestamp: 1575846325

Remove unneeded & incorrect check.

the removed line is not needed, since with the conditions on SE, eval
equals ttValue (except inCheck), which must be larger than beta if the second condition
is true.

The removed line is also incorrect as eval might be VALUE_NONE at this
location if inCheck. This removal addresses part of https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/pull/2406#issuecomment-552642608

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Author: Stéphane Nicolet
Date: Mon Dec 9 00:00:34 2019 +0100
Timestamp: 1575846034

The sudo tag is deprecated in Travis CI

Reported by Christian Clauss. Thanks!

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Author: FauziAkram
Date: Tue Dec 3 00:27:58 2019 +0100
Timestamp: 1575329278

UnblockedStorm tuned

STC
http://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/5de155980294ec4750cba9bd
LLR: 2.96 (-2.94,2.94) [0.00,4.00]
Total: 60206 W: 13295 L: 12895 D: 34016 Elo +2.31

LTC
http://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/5de22f6f0294ec4750cba9e7
LLR: 2.95 (-2.94,2.94) [0.00,3.50]
Total: 182005 W: 29571 L: 28902 D: 123532 Elo +1.28

VLTC
http://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/5de4adca5e868d334be516c1
LLR: 2.95 (-2.94,2.94) [-3.00,1.00]
Total: 42101 W: 6068 L: 5978 D: 30055 Elo +0.74

Bench: 5122362
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Author: Alain SAVARD
Date: Sun Dec 1 19:12:39 2019 +0100
Timestamp: 1575223959

King proximity tweak for passed pawns

Decrease slightly the penalty for opponent king distance to passed pawn.
Instead of 5:2 ratio (or 20:8) we now have 19:8

STC
http://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/5de281b2727dc1d26718a673
LLR: 2.95 (-2.94,2.94) [-1.50,4.50]
Total: 28638 W: 6297 L: 6104 D: 16237 Elo +2.34

LTC
http://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/5de2a2ff727dc1d26718a67b
LLR: 2.95 (-2.94,2.94) [0.00,3.50]
Total: 59586 W: 9766 L: 9429 D: 40391 Elo +1.97

Where to go from here:
Further tests will try a similar tweak on the friendly king proximity penalty,
because recent experiments indicate that this penalty is quite sensitive,
but I wanted to try first on the larger term.

Closes https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/pull/2435

bench: 5258928

---------------

Increasing the penalty ratio to 21:8 was neutral.
http://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/5de2814d727dc1d26718a671

Decreasing the penalty ratio a bit more to 9:4 seems less promising
http://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/5de2f4c2727dc1d26718a691
http://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/5de32ecc727dc1d26718a6b0
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Author: Joost VandeVondele
Date: Thu Nov 28 10:39:02 2019 +0100
Timestamp: 1574933942

Extend bench to static evaluations

this patch extends bench to print static evaluations.

./stockfish bench 16 1 1 filename eval

will now print the evaluations for all fens in the file.

This complements the various 'go' flavors for bench and might be useful for debugging and/or tuning.

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Author: Vizvezdenec
Date: Tue Nov 26 01:28:05 2019 +0100
Timestamp: 1574728085

Simplify king danger

This patch is a cleanup/simplification of king flank defenders patch,
removing king flanks attacks linear dependance in kingdanger. Result
of experiments with quadratic kingflank defenders scaling. Rebased on
the latest master.

passed STC
http://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/5ddc2b99e0b4af579302bacf
LLR: 2.95 (-2.94,2.94) [-3.00,1.00]
Total: 19660 W: 4309 L: 4184 D: 11167 Elo +2.21

passed LTC
http://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/5ddc3168e0b4af579302bade
LLR: 2.95 (-2.94,2.94) [-3.00,1.00]
Total: 24362 W: 3974 L: 3859 D: 16529 Elo +1.64

Closes https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/pull/2428

bench 5742013
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Author: Moez Jellouli
Date: Tue Nov 26 00:01:49 2019 +0100
Timestamp: 1574722909

Extend last non-pawn captures

Extend last non-pawn captures at principal variation nodes because
they are in general decisive moves with clear endgame result.

STC
http://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/5ddafc86e75c0005326d2140
LLR: 2.96 (-2.94,2.94) [-1.50,4.50]
Total: 9892 W: 2238 L: 2099 D: 5555 Elo +4.88

LTC
http://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/5ddb0401e75c0005326d2150
LLR: 2.95 (-2.94,2.94) [0.00,3.50]
Total: 30369 W: 5013 L: 4756 D: 20600 Elo +2.94

Closes https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/pull/2425

Bench: 5059526
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Author: 31m059
Date: Sun Nov 24 00:34:43 2019 +0100
Timestamp: 1574552083

King danger: retire attacked-by-bishop defense

In a recent commit, "Introduce king flank defenders," a term was introduced
by Michael Chaly (@Vizvezdenec) to reduce king danger based on king defenders,
i.e., friendly attacks on our King Flank and Camp. This is a powerful idea
and broadly applicable to all of our pieces.

An earlier, but narrower, version of a similar idea was already coded into
king danger, with a term reducing king danger simply if we had a bishop and
king attacking the same square -- there is also a similar term for knights,
but roughly three times larger. I had attempted to tweak this term's coefficient
fairly recently, in a series of tests in early September which increased this
coefficient. All failed STC with significantly negative scores.

Now that the king flank defenders term has been introduced, it appears that
the bishop-defense term can be simplified away without compensation or
significant Elo loss.

Where do we go from here? This PR is a natural follow-up to "Introduce king
flank defenders," which proposed simplification with existing and overlapping
terms, such as this one. That PR also mentioned that the coefficient it
introduced appeared arbitrary, so perhaps this PR can facilitate a tweak to
increase king flank defenders' coefficient.

Additionally, this pull request is extremely similar to https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/pull/1821,
which was (coincidentally) merged a year ago, to the day (November 23, 2018).
That patch also simplified away a linear king danger tropism term, which was
soon after replaced with a quadratic term by @Vizvezdenec (which would not have
passed without the simplification). @Vizvezdenec, again by coincidence, has
recently been trying to implement a quadratic term, this time for defenders
rather than attackers. This history of this evaluation code suggests that
this simplification might be enough to help a patch for quadratic king-flank
defenders pass.

Bench: 4959670

STC:
LLR: 2.94 (-2.94,2.94) [-3.00,1.00]
Total: 22209 W: 4920 L: 4800 D: 12489 Elo +1.88
https://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/5dd444d914339111b9b6bed7

LTC:
LLR: 2.95 (-2.94,2.94) [-3.00,1.00]
Total: 152107 W: 24658 L: 24743 D: 102706 Elo -0.19
https://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/5dd4be31f531e81cf278ea9d

Interesting discussion on Github about this pull request:
https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/pull/2424

---

This pull request was opened less than one week before the holiday of
Thanksgiving here in the United States. In keeping with the holiday
tradition of expressing gratitude, I would like to thank our generous
CPU donors, talented forum contributors, innovative developers, speedy
fishtest approvers, and especially our hardworking server maintainers
(@ppigazzini and @tomtor). Thank you all for a year of great Stockfish
progress!
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Author: SFisGOD
Date: Sun Nov 24 00:23:06 2019 +0100
Timestamp: 1574551386

Simplify endgame factor for opposite colored bishops

Stockfish is continually improving. Patches that gain elo in the past may
no longer be needed as stockfish improved elsewhere. This patch removes
passed pawns count dependence in opposite colored bishops scale factor.
We used the mean of passed count pawns (~1.4) to compensate, and changed
the base value from 16 to 22.

Passed STC:
LLR: 2.95 (-2.94,2.94) [-3.00,1.00]
Total: 57879 W: 12657 L: 12607 D: 32615 Elo +0.30
http://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/5dd1644f42928ff08153dc1e

Passed LTC:
LLR: 2.95 (-2.94,2.94) [-3.00,1.00]
Total: 121648 W: 19622 L: 19659 D: 82367 Elo -0.11
http://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/5dd24572ccb823d41d4b47bb

Closes https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/pull/2419

Bench: 5067864
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Author: Vizvezdenec
Date: Thu Nov 21 09:52:13 2019 +0100
Timestamp: 1574326333

Do lmr for more captures

Based on machinery introduced by vondele. Logic behind patch if relatively simple -
if we reduce less with high hit rate of transposition table somewhat logical is to
reduce more with low hit rate. For example enable all captures for LMR.

Threshold 0.375 is arbitrary and can be tweaked :)

STC
http://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/5dd4d51df531e81cf278eaac
LLR: 2.97 (-2.94,2.94) [-1.50,4.50]
Total: 16495 W: 3591 L: 3434 D: 9470 Elo +3.31

LTC
http://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/5dd52265f531e81cf278eace
LLR: 2.96 (-2.94,2.94) [0.00,3.50]
Total: 23598 W: 3956 L: 3716 D: 15926 Elo +3.53

Closes https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/pull/2420

Bench: 5067870
see source
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Linux x64
Author: Alain SAVARD
Date: Thu Nov 21 09:32:19 2019 +0100
Timestamp: 1574325139

Outpost Endgame values

Remove the recent rank based Outpost array by using a weighted average value
computed using a frequency analysis by rank from a large set of middle game
positions.

The higher eg values introduced by the new Outpost array (which were about
twice the previous masters) are thus preserved.

STC
http://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/5dd05c870ebc5902579e1f7f
LLR: 2.96 (-2.94,2.94) [-3.00,1.00]
Total: 42466 W: 9232 L: 9151 D: 24083 Elo +0.66

LTC
http://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/5dd146e342928ff08153dab1
LLR: 2.95 (-2.94,2.94) [-3.00,1.00]
Total: 66968 W: 10921 L: 10873 D: 45174 Elo +0.25

Closes https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/pull/2418

Bench: 5103360
see source
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Author: Vizvezdenec
Date: Tue Nov 19 23:18:14 2019 +0100
Timestamp: 1574201894

Simplify advanced pawn push pruning

This patch simplifies away all conditions related to advanced pawn pushes
in shallow depth pruning. Idea is based on fact that in master we have
advanced pawn pushes not being pruned what we are only in PV node and
when non-pawn material of opponent is > Bishop, so pretty rarely. With
this patch we will have all pruning heuristics working for this moves as
for every other move.

STC
LLR: 2.94 (-2.94,2.94) [-3.00,1.00]
Total: 159143 W: 34271 L: 34418 D: 90454 Elo -0.32
http://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/5dcdb3110ebc5902563249d7

LTC
LLR: 2.95 (-2.94,2.94) [-3.00,1.00]
Total: 63900 W: 10375 L: 10322 D: 43203 Elo +0.29
http://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/5dd05e820ebc5902579e1fb8

Closes https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/pull/2416

bench 4897149
see source

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