phenri/Stockfish — pull request #4 by phenri (2013-10-20 17:01:13+00:00)
Title: Revert "Further increase safe checks bonus"

This reverts commit 4bc2374450e30101392 for
two reasons.

First regression testing shows almost equal
score:

Before the patch:
ELO: 49.75 +-2.5 (95%) LOS: 100.0%
Total: 27205 W: 7113 L: 3244 D: 16848

After the patch:
ELO: 48.87 +-2.9 (95%) LOS: 100.0%
Total: 20860 W: 5478 L: 2563 D: 12819

Second, and more sensible to me, this patch
increases safe check bonuses to 4 times their
original value (!) and considering:

- Values were already well tuned

- Values are highly critical

- King safety is highly critical, very TC
dependent and very difficult to test

- Our testing coverage is partial (self-testing,
blitz times)

I think is better to be safe than sorry and so
I revert the patch.

bench: 8440524