/* Stockfish, a UCI chess playing engine derived from Glaurung 2.1 Copyright (C) 2004-2026 The Stockfish developers (see AUTHORS file) Stockfish is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. Stockfish is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see . */ #ifndef MOVEPICK_H_INCLUDED #define MOVEPICK_H_INCLUDED #include "history.h" #include "movegen.h" #include "types.h" namespace Stockfish { class Position; // The MovePicker class is used to pick one pseudo-legal move at a time from the // current position. The most important method is next_move(), which emits one // new pseudo-legal move on every call, until there are no moves left, when // Move::none() is returned. In order to improve the efficiency of the alpha-beta // algorithm, MovePicker attempts to return the moves which are most likely to get // a cut-off first. class MovePicker { public: MovePicker(const MovePicker&) = delete; MovePicker& operator=(const MovePicker&) = delete; MovePicker(const Position&, Move, Depth, const ButterflyHistory*, const LowPlyHistory*, const CapturePieceToHistory*, const PieceToHistory**, const SharedHistories*, int); MovePicker(const Position&, Move, int, const CapturePieceToHistory*); Move next_move(); void skip_quiet_moves(); private: template Move select(Pred); template ExtMove* score(MoveList&); ExtMove* begin() { return cur; } ExtMove* end() { return endCur; } const Position& pos; const ButterflyHistory* mainHistory; const LowPlyHistory* lowPlyHistory; const CapturePieceToHistory* captureHistory; const PieceToHistory** continuationHistory; const SharedHistories* sharedHistory; Move ttMove; ExtMove * cur, *endCur, *endBadCaptures, *endCaptures, *endGenerated; int stage; int threshold; Depth depth; int ply; bool skipQuiets = false; ExtMove moves[MAX_MOVES]; }; } // namespace Stockfish #endif // #ifndef MOVEPICK_H_INCLUDED