Switch to Crafty-style killer ordering; fix mvNullmoveRefutations type-mixing bug and add a quiet-refutation killer backfill.

Killer tiers now try both of this ply's own killers before either
ply-2-back one, matching Crafty's ordering. Two earlier attempts at
this same swap were reverted for regressing; this pass lands on top of
NumLeftoverMovesToSelect (more SelectBestWithHistory budget to reach
these lower-tier slots) and a real bug fix below, and beats interleaved
order head-to-head on solves, node count, and first-move beta cutoff
across the three curated suites.

The bug: mvNullmoveRefutations's empty-killer-slot backfill could only
ever contain a capturing move (TryNullmovePruning only wrote it inside
the capture-refutation branch), but IS_SAME_MOVE's mask includes the
pCaptured bits, so that backfilled value could never match a real
quiet candidate -- the backfill was silently dead code. Fixed by
recording genuinely quiet null-move refutations into a new, separate
mvNullmoveQuietRefutations array (kept separate so it can't clobber the
capture history mvNullmoveRefutations still needs for the
Botvinnik-Markoff same-piece-two-squares extension check) and
backfilling the regular killer table from that instead. The
check-evasion killer table intentionally does *not* get this backfill:
a null-move refutation can never legitimately be an escaping-check
move (null moves can't deliver check), so backfilling there risks
IS_SAME_MOVE cross-context false positives instead of the old
guaranteed-inert no-op.

Measured at sd10 across ecm_ringers/ecm_confident_quick/ecm_hard_quick
against head_reference (commit d11e973): 115/191 solves (vs. 116
baseline), 924.36M total nodes (vs. 933.23M), first-move beta cutoff
within 0.1-0.9 points of baseline on all three suites -- and clearly
better than the same fix under interleaved order (113/191 solves,
963.10M nodes), which loses to head_reference on every metric.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01EortUUkDVpsfrbqshBJYJg

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+setboard 2q1r1k1/1ppb4/r2p1Pp1/p4n1p/2P1n3/5NPP/PP3Q1K/2BRRB2 w - -

+solution f7+

+id "ECM.001"

+go

+setboard 7r/1p2k3/2bpp3/p3np2/P1PR4/2N2PP1/1P4K1/3B4 b - -

+solution Bxf3+

+id "ECM.002"

+go

+setboard 4k3/p1P3p1/2q1np1p/3N4/8/1Q3PP1/6KP/8 w - -

+solution Qb5

+id "ECM.003"

+go

+setboard 2r1b1k1/R4pp1/4pb1p/1pBr4/1Pq2P2/3N4/2PQ2PP/5RK1 b - -

+solution Rcxc5

+id "ECM.004"

+go

+setboard 6k1/p1qb1p1p/1p3np1/2b2p2/2B5/2P3N1/PP2QPPP/4N1K1 b - -

+solution Bxf2+

+id "ECM.005"

+go

+setboard 3q4/pp3pkp/5npN/2bpr1B1/4r3/2P2Q2/PP3PPP/R4RK1 w - -

+solution Bxf6+

+id "ECM.006"

+go

+setboard 3rr1k1/pb3pp1/1p1q1b1p/1P2NQ2/3P4/P1NB4/3K1P1P/2R3R1 w - -

+solution Rxg7+

+id "ECM.007"

+go

+setboard r1b1r1k1/p1p3pp/2p2n2/2bp4/5P2/3BBQPq/PPPK3P/R4N1R b - -

+solution Bg4

+id "ECM.008"

+go

+setboard 3r4/1b2k3/1pq1pp2/p3n1pr/2P5/5PPN/PP1N1QP1/R2R2K1 b - -

+solution Rxh3

+id "ECM.009"

+go

+setboard 2r4k/pB4bp/6p1/6q1/1P1n4/2N5/P4PPP/2R1Q1K1 b - -

+solution Qxc1

+id "ECM.010"

+go

+setboard 1r5r/3b1pk1/3p1np1/p1qPp3/p1N1PbP1/2P2PN1/1PB1Q1K1/R3R3 b - -

+solution Nxg4

+id "ECM.011"

+go

+setboard 5rk1/7p/p1N5/3pNp2/2bPnqpQ/P7/1P3PPP/4R1K1 w - -

+solution Ne7+

+id "ECM.012"

+go

+setboard rnb2rk1/pp2np1p/2p2q1b/8/2BPPN2/2P2Q2/PP4PP/R1B2RK1 w - -

+solution Nd5

+id "ECM.013"

+go

+setboard 2k4r/1pp2ppp/p1p1bn2/4N3/1q1rP3/2N1Q3/PPP2PPP/R4RK1 w - -

+solution Nd5

+id "ECM.014"

+go

+setboard r3kb1r/pp2pppp/3q4/3Pn3/6b1/2N1BN2/PP3PPP/R2QKB1R w KQkq -

+solution Nxe5

+id "ECM.015"

+go

+setboard 2rr2k1/1b3p1p/p4qpb/2R1n3/3p4/BP2P3/P3QPPP/3R1BKN b - -

+solution Rxc5

+id "ECM.016"

+go

+setboard r1b1k3/5p1p/p1p5/3np3/1b2N3/4B3/PPP1BPrP/2KR3R w q -

+solution Rxd5

+id "ECM.017"

+go

+setboard r3rbk1/1pq2ppp/2ppbnn1/p3p3/P1PPN3/BP1BPN1P/2Q2PP1/R2R2K1 w - -

+solution Nxd6

+id "ECM.018"

+go

+setboard b7/2q2kp1/p3pbr1/1pPpP2Q/1P1N3P/6P1/P7/5RK1 w - -

+solution Rxf6+

+id "ECM.019"

+go

+setboard 1rr1nbk1/5ppp/3p4/1q1PpN2/np2P3/5Q1P/P1BB1PP1/2R1R1K1 w - -

+solution Bxa4

+id "ECM.020"

+go

+setboard r7/5kp1/2p1p2p/1p1n3P/2rP4/2P3R1/PK2RPP1/2B5 b - -

+solution Rxc3

+id "ECM.021"

+go

+setboard r1r3k1/p3qpp1/b1P4p/3p4/3Nn3/4P3/P1Q2PPP/1BR1K2R b K -

+solution Qb4+

+id "ECM.022"

+go

+setboard rn3rk1/4bppp/1q2p3/p2pP3/8/1PN2B1P/P4PP1/2RQ1RK1 w - -

+solution Bxd5

+id "ECM.023"

+go

+setboard 6rk/1p1br2p/pqp5/3pNP2/3Pp3/P5PR/5PKR/Q7 w - -

+solution Rxh7+

+id "ECM.024"

+go

+setboard 2b3k1/5p1p/7b/p2B3p/3P4/P2Q1N1P/1q3PP1/6K1 w - -

+solution Bxf7+

+id "ECM.025"

+go

+setboard r1b5/4k3/p7/3p1n2/3Bp3/2P2r1P/PPBK1P2/4R2R w - -

+solution Bc5+

+id "ECM.026"

+go

+setboard r4rk1/1b3Npp/p7/1p3Q2/3P4/1B2q3/P5PP/3n1R1K b - -

+solution Bxg2+

+id "ECM.027"

+go

+setboard r1b2rk1/2q2ppp/2pbp3/p7/4Nn2/3B4/PPPBQ1PP/R4R1K w - -

+solution Rxf4

+id "ECM.028"

+go

+setboard 3r2k1/1q1P1ppp/r2R2n1/p4Q2/1ppB2R1/6P1/PP3PP1/6K1 w - -

+solution Rgxg6

+id "ECM.029"

+go

+setboard r2q1rk1/p3b1pp/2p5/1pn5/1n1Bp1b1/1P6/PQ1PPP2/2RNKBNR b K -

+solution Bxe2

+id "ECM.030"

+go