Be more aggressive on trying to finish iterations

Increase MaxRatio to use more time when in trouble.

After 16000 games at 60+0.05
ELO: 4.89 +-5.4 (95%) LOS: 99.9%
Total: 16000 W: 2700 L: 2475 D: 10825

No functional change.
Check for easy move just once

Here the rational seems to be that if after one try easy
move detection fails then the easy move is not so easy :-)

After 15563 games at 60+0.05
ELO: 3.04 +-5.5 (95%) LOS: 97.0%
Total: 15563 W: 2664 L: 2528 D: 10371

No functional change.
Do more work between prefetch and querying transposition table

More time to load the cache line before access

No functional change.
Improved Readability of Material

This is a non-functional change that simply changes the look
of the code to help clarity.

No functional change.
Revert "Check for easy move just once"

This reverts commit a24da071f0d6128c633febab7df55f14475217c3

Seems a regression when tested against 2.3.1

With this patch, have after 20000 games at 60+0.05, we have

ELO: 13.42 +-4.8 (95%) LOS: 100.0%
Total: 20000 W: 3746 L: 2974 D: 13280

Instead with the patch reverted:

ELO: 16.62 +-4.8 (95%) LOS: 100.0%
Total: 20000 W: 3816 L: 2860 D: 13324

Although we are within error bounds here we take the conservative
approach of not introducing changes that are not proved stronger
It doesn't mean that the change shall be weaker, simply that we
don't want to take any risk.

No functional change.
Further increase SEE prune depth

After 16000 games at 60+0.05
ELO: 2.89 +-5.4 (95%) LOS: 96.5%
Total: 16000 W: 2775 L: 2642 D: 10583

bench: 5442365
Add KNPKB endgame

In a game vs Junior, SF had the option to trade into a winning
pawn endgame, and failed to do so. PGN at bottom.

This FEN was one key position: 8/2Nb1k2/6pp/4Pp2/5K1P/5PP1/8/8 w - - 5 62.

SF master chooses h5 here, with a fail high, which goes into the drawn KNPKB
ending. With the patch, SF correctly chooses Ke3, which maintains chances to win.

[Event "nTCEC - Stage 2a - Season 1"]
[Site "http://www.tcec-chess.net"]
[Date "2013.03.05"]
[Round "11.3"]
[White "Stockfish 210213"]
[Black "Junior 13.3"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[Variant "normal"]

1. d4 f5 2. g3 Nf6 3. Bg2 e6 4. c4 d5 5. Nh3 c6 6. O-O Bd6 7. Bf4 Be7 8. Nd2 O-O
9. Qb3 a5 10. Rfd1 Ne4 11. Be3 Nd7 12. Nf4 Ndf6 13. f3 a4 14. Qc2 Nxd2 15. Bxd2
dxc4 16. Qxc4 b5 17. Qc3 Qb6 18. Rac1 e5 19. Nd3 exd4 20. Qxc6 Qxc6 21. Rxc6
Bd7 22. Rcc1 Be6 23. Bb4 Rae8 24. Bxe7 Rxe7 25. Nb4 Bc4 26. Bf1 Rd7 27. Rd2 Re8
28. Rcd1 Rc7 29. Ra1 Rd8 30. Rc1 Rdd7 31. Rcd1 Re7 32. Ra1 Nd5 33. Nc2 Ne3
34. Nxd4 Bxa2 35. Nxb5 Rc5 36. Nd4 Bf7 37. Kf2 g6 38. Rd3 Nxf1 39. Kxf1 Rc4
40. b3 axb3 41. Nxb3 Kf8 42. Rd8+ Re8 43. Rxe8+ Bxe8 44. Kf2 Ke7 45. Ra7+ Bd7
46. Ke1 Rc3 47. Rb7 Rc2 48. Kd1 Rc4 49. Kd2 Kd6 50. Kd3 Rc7 51. Rxc7 Kxc7
52. Kd4 Kd6 53. Nc5 Bb5 54. e4 Be2 55. e5+ Ke7 56. Ke3 Bd1 57. Kf4 h6 58. h3
Kf7 59. h4 Bc2 60. Na6 Ba4 61. Nc7 Bd7 62. h5 g5+ 63. Ke3 Ba4 64. f4 Bd1
65. fxg5 hxg5 66. h6 Kg6 67. e6 f4+ 68. gxf4 gxf4+ 69. Kxf4 Bh5 70. Ke5 Kh7
71. Kf6 Kxh6 72. Na6 Bg4 73. e7 Bh5 74. Nc7 Bg6 75. Nd5 Be8 76. Ne3 Kh7 77. Nc4
Kh6 78. Nd2 Kh5 79. Nf3 Kg4 80. Nd4 Bh5 81. Ne6 Be8 82. Nc5 Kf3 83. Kf5 Ke3
84. Ke5 Ke2 85. Kf4 Kd2 86. Ne4+ Kd3 87. Ke5 Ke3 88. Nf6 Bf7 89. Nd5+ Kf3
90. Kf5 Ke2 91. Ke4 Be8 92. Nc3+ Kd2 93. Kd4 Kc2 94. Nd5 Kd1 95. Nf6 Bf7
96. Ne4 Be8 97. Ke3 Kc2 98. Nd6 Bd7 99. Kd4 Kd1 100. Kd3 Ba4 101. Nc4 Bb5
102. Kc3 Be8 103. Nb2+ Ke1 104. Kd3 Kf2 105. Nd1+ 1/2-1/2

No functional change (just because bench does not change)
Better document bitbase loop

Thanks to Lucas to spot the weak comment and
to Jundery to suggest a better one.

No functional change.
Increase non-PV IID search depth

bench: 5146380
Use ALL_PIECES value to reference attackedBy

No functional change
Fix bogus mate scores in some positions

Always before pruning the move, it's important to check that:

bestValue > VALUE_MATED_IN_MAX_PLY

See example position:

8/2p1p3/P1NpP3/3k4/1P1BN3/2P1P3/2Q5/6K1 w - - 0 1
http://support.stockfishchess.org/discussions/problems/268-wrong-declaring-a-forced-mate-in-3-moves

This problem was present in 2.3.1, then it was fixed by my patch.

After 24000 games at 15+0.05
ELO: 2.40 +-4.4 (95%) LOS: 95.7%
Total: 24000 W: 4774 L: 4608 D: 14618

bench: 4465997
Update bestValue when futility pruning (2)

Same idea of 5af8179647b9e80353c
in qsearch() but applied to search()

After 15500 games at 15+0.05
ELO: 4.48 +-3.4 (95%) LOS: 99.5%
Total: 15500 W: 3061 L: 2861 D: 9578

bench: 4985829
Raise Min Split Depth

Raise the limit to 12 so to allow people to test
on many cores machines.

Suggested by Gary and Martin.

No functional change.
Merge branch 'master' into increase_iid
Set IID half way between d/2 and d-4

Master IID formula is depth / 2
Previous patch is depth - 4 * ONE_PLY

This one is the middle way:

(dept/2 + depth-4*ONE_PLY)/2  -> depth-2*ONE_PLY-depth/4

After 16000 games at 60+0.05 th 1
ELO: 4.08 +-3.1 (95%) LOS: 99.5%
Total: 16000 W: 2742 L: 2554 D: 10704

bench: 4781239
Double Impact of Gain tables

Very unorthodox idea.

After 16000 games at 60"+0.05
ELO: 3.14 +-3.4 (95%) LOS: 96.6%
Total: 13407 W: 2278 L: 2157 D: 8972

bench: 4705335
Don't early stop if we have a mated score

No functional change.
Revert "Double Impact of Gain tables"

This reverts commit 36c82b751ce227c05bfb

Seems a regression against 2.3.1 tested with 20K games at 60"+0.05

With patch applied
ELO: 15.44 +-2.8 (95%) LOS: 100.0%
Total: 20000 W: 3928 L: 3040 D: 13032

Without patch applied
ELO: 18.76 +-2.8 (95%) LOS: 100.0%
Total: 20000 W: 3903 L: 2824 D: 13273

bench: 4781239
Lower minimum allowed TT size to 1 MB

Setting a very low TT size could be used
for some specific testing.

No functional change.
Introduce asymmetric SEE.

No functional change