Latest abrok Development Versions January 4th

Subject: Latest abrok Development Versions January 4th Fri Jan 04, 2019 6:20 pm

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Author: Marco Costalba
Date: Fri Jan 4 14:23:14 2019 +0100
Timestamp: 1546608194

Delay castling legality check

Delay legality check of castling moves at search time,
just before making the move, as is the standard with all
the other move types.

This should avoid an useless and not trivial legality check
when the castling is then not tried later. For instance due
to a previous cut-off.

The patch is also a big simplification and allows to entirely
remove generate_castling()

Bench changes due to a different move sequence out of MovePicker.

STC:
LLR: 2.95 (-2.94,2.94) [-3.00,1.00]
Total: 45073 W: 9918 L: 9843 D: 25312 Elo +0.58
http://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/5c2f176f0ebc596a450bdfb3

LTC:
LLR: 3.15 (-2.94,2.94) [-3.00,1.00]
Total: 10156 W: 1707 L: 1560 D: 6889 Elo +5.03
http://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/5c2e7dfd0ebc596a450bcdf4

Verified with perft both in standard and Chess960 cases.

Closes https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/pull/1929

Bench: 3559104

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