Stockfish 5

Stockfish bench signature is: 8732553
Restore development version

bench: 8732553
Retire polyglot.ini

All actively maintained GUI are able
to understand UCI protocol, so there
is no more need for this obsolete file.

No functional change.
Retire eval weights UCI options

There is really little that user can achieve (apart
from a weakened engine) tweaking these parameters
that are already tuned and have no immediate or visible
effect.

So better do not expose them to the user and avoid the
typical "What is the best setup for my machine?" kind of
question (by far the most common, by far the most useless).

No functional change.
Retire Polyglot Book management

Book handling belongs to GUI, we kept this code
for historical reasons, but nowdays there is
really no need of this old, (mostly) unused
and especially incorrect designed functionality.

It is up to the GUI to choose the book (far easier for
the user) and to select the book parameters. In no
place, including fishtest, TCEC, rating lists, etc.
the "own book" is used, moreover currently SF is
released without any book and even if in the future we
bundle a book in the release package, it will be the GUI
that will take care of it.

This corrects a wrong design decision that Galurung
and later Stockfish inherited from what was common
practice many yeas ago.

No functional change.
Decrease reduction for moves that escape a capture

Passed both STC
LLR: 2.96 (-2.94,2.94) [-1.50,4.50]
Total: 10094 W: 1833 L: 1704 D: 6557

and LTC
LLR: 2.95 (-2.94,2.94) [0.00,6.00]
Total: 27738 W: 4147 L: 3928 D: 19663

bench : 8599236
Add some const qualifier

No functional change.
Use see() instead of see_sign() in previous patch

Before it was working by accident in case of
see_sign() and failing with see() due to how
castle moves are coded (king captures the rook).

Better to explicitly filter out castling moves
and use see() without any surprise/trick.

No functional case.
Symmetric King Safety: take 2

Another attempt at retiring current asymmetric
king evaluation and use a much simpler symmetric
one. As a good side effect we can avoid recalculating
eval after a null move.

Tested in no-regression mode and passed

STC
LLR: 2.96 (-2.94,2.94) [-3.00,1.00]
Total: 21580 W: 3752 L: 3632 D: 14196

LTC
LLR: 2.96 (-2.94,2.94) [-3.00,1.00]
Total: 18253 W: 2593 L: 2469 D: 13191

And a LTC regression test against SF DD to
verify we don't have regression against
weaker engines due to some kind of 'contempt'
effect:

ELO: 54.69 +-2.1 (95%) LOS: 100.0%
Total: 40000 W: 11072 L: 4827 D: 24101

bench: 8205159
Update Readme.md

Retire line about polyglot.ini and
book as they are not used anymore.

No functional change.
Fix a warning with MSVC Premium 2013

Reported by Ron Britvich.

No functional change.
Revert "Score extractors"

Are broken for big-endian case and
I have verified with MSVC 2013 Premium
bench is correct and there is no
miscompilation, so the main reason
to change the original code drops.

No functional change.
Move Tempo to evaluation

No functional change.
Avoid to use nullChild

Should be a non functional change, but
for some reason bench is changed.

bench: 8454456
Temporary revert previous patch

Split previous patch in 2 steps: first remove
the MOVE_NULL hack, then retire nullChild.

The first step is a prerequisite
for second one and affects bench.

The second step (next patch) just removes nullChild
without affecting bench.

bench: 8205159
Remove 'update gains' hack

Use (move != MOVE_NONE) condition to
filtering out updating gains at root.

bench: 8454456
Avoid to use nullChild

Use instead:

(ss-1)->currentMove == MOVE_NULL

No functional change.
Use unsigned char as argument of std::isspace

Although signature allows an int:

int isspace( int ch );

The behavior is undefined if the value of ch is
not representable as unsigned char and is not
equal to EOF.

See

http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/string/byte/isspace
http://www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/tech/cfu.html

This is really a tricky corner case of C standard!

Spotted and reported by Ron Britvich.

No functional change.
Check for an available slave early on

Don't take the split lock if we don't have
available slaves (about 30-40% of times).

This new condition allows to retire the now
redundant one on number of threads.

No functional change.
Small renaming in Tracing

No functional change.