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12 daysSwitch to Crafty-style killer ordering; fix mvNullmoveRefutations ↵Scott Gasch
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
12 daysRewire GetMoveFailHighPercentage: index by (cFrom, cTo, pMoved) insteadScott Gasch
of (cFrom, cTo, color), and expose sample size. MOVE_TO_INDEX (used elsewhere for the counter-move table) folds any two moves with the same from/to/color into one fail-high bucket -- e.g. a king shuffle and a queen sac to the same square/color shared a slot. New MOVE_TO_FH_INDEX uses the low 20 bits of mv.uMove (cFrom+cTo+pMoved), which already encodes color in pMoved's low bit, so this is strictly more granular for free. Table grown 0x20000 -> 0x100000 entries to match. Also adds an optional ULONG *puAttempts out-param so future callers can weight by sample confidence instead of trusting a percentage computed from as few as one observation. GetLMRReduction (proto-LMR, live at HEAD) is the only real consumer right now; verified against head_reference at sd10 across ecm_ringers/ecm_confident_quick/ecm_hard_quick: net +2 solves (88 vs 87 on confident_quick, 18 vs 17 on hard_quick), node counts flat within noise (-1.5%/+1.4%/+0.5%).
2026-08-27Baseline: uPositional data-calibrated fix, enprise/trapped hints, ↵Scott Gasch
EBF/beta-cutoff/counter-move stats, script.c FPE fix. No LMR, no counter-move-driven move ordering (both explored separately, kept out for now -- counter-move measured worse, ~655->647 solved on ecm879 @ sn=4M with a leaner tree beforehand). Futility pruning restored. Verified: 647/879 solved, EBF 4.609 @ sn=4M; 684/879 solved, EBF 3.995 @ 20s/move, 1cpu, 256m hash (typhoon_baseline.log). The counter-move table is still written and its stats still tracked (dynamic.c) for diagnostic purposes, but generate.c no longer reads it for move ordering, so it has no effect on search behavior in this commit. lmr_testing/ holds the in-flight graded-LMR + counter-move code (not applied here) with notes on what was already tried and measured, so a future session can resume without re-deriving it.
2026-08-22Bug fixes.Scott Gasch
2016-06-01Initial checkin for typhoon chess engine.Scott Gasch