March 5 2017 Dervs

Subject: March 5 2017 Dervs Tue Mar 07, 2017 4:22 pm

!! latest version !!

Windows x64 for Haswell CPUs
Windows x64 for modern computers
Windows x64
Windows 32
Linux x64 for Haswell CPUs
Linux x64 for modern computers
Linux x64

Author: VoyagerOne
Date: Sun Mar 5 18:58:06 2017 -0800
Timestamp: 1488769086

Allow pruning advance pawn pushes if not near endgame

STC:
LLR: -2.95 (-2.94,2.94) [0.00,5.00]
Total: 101088 W: 18016 L: 17717 D: 65355

LTC:
LLR: 2.95 (-2.94,2.94) [0.00,5.00]
Total: 61194 W: 8108 L: 7791 D: 45295

Bench: 5803228

Closes #1023

Windows x64 for Haswell CPUs
Windows x64 for modern computers
Windows x64
Windows 32
Linux x64 for Haswell CPUs
Linux x64 for modern computers
Linux x64

Author: snicolet
Date: Sun Mar 5 18:20:27 2017 -0800
Timestamp: 1488766827

Speed-up some arrays reading

This patch removes the empty rows at the beginning and at the end of
MobilityBonus[] and Protector[] arrays:

• reducing the size of MobilityBonus from 768 bytes to 512 bytes
• reducing the size of Protector from 1024 to 512 bytes

Also adds some comments and cleaner code for the arrays in pawns.cpp

No speed penalty (measured speed-up of 0.4%).

No functional change.

Closes #1018

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