Stockfish 16011823_lucasart - new development version very strong chess engine UCI

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January 22, 2016

Stockfish 16011823_lucasart - new development version very strong chess engine UCI

Stockfish - chess engines UCI

Previous version chess engine Stockfish

Author compilation - Lucasart

Information on the compilation:

Timestamp: 1453155702

Retire RootNode template

There is no reason to compile 3 different copies of search(). PV nodes are on the cold path, and PvNode is a template parameter, so there is no cost in computing:

const bool RootNode = PvNode && (ss-1)->ply == 0;

And this simplifies code a tiny bit as well.

Speed impact is negligible on my machine (i7-3770k, linux 4.2, gcc 5.2):

nps +/-

test 2378605 3118

master 2383128 2793

diff -4523 2746

Bench: 7751425

No functional change.

Resolves #568

JCER=3256

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