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They are compiled with gcc 11.2/mingw 10 on Ubuntu 22.04.

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Author: 31m059
Date: Fri Sep 27 12:46:47 2019 +0200
Timestamp: 1569581207

Extend castling independently of singular extension

A curious feature of Stockfish's current extension code is its repeated
use of "else if." In most cases, this makes no functional difference,
because no more than one extension is applied; once one extension has
been applied, the remaining ones can be safely ignored.

However, if most singular extension search conditions are true, except
"value < singularBeta", no non-singular extensions (e.g., castling) can
be performed!

Three tests were submitted, for three of Stockfish's four non-singular
extensions. I excluded the shuffle extension, because historically there
have been concerns about the fragility of its conditions, and I did not
want to risk causing any serious search problems.

- Modifying the passed pawn extension appeared roughly neutral at STC. At
best, it appeared to be an improvement of less than 1 Elo.
- Modifying check extension performed very poorly at STC
- Modifying castling extension (this patch) produced a long "yellow" run
at STC (insufficient to pass, but positive score) and a strong LTC.

In simple terms, prior to this patch castling extension was occasionally
not applied during search--on castling moves. The effect of this patch is
to perform castling extension on more castling moves. It does so without
adding any code complexity, simply by replacing an "else if" with "if" and
reordering some existing code.

STC:
LLR: -2.96 (-2.94,2.94) [0.00,4.00]
Total: 108114 W: 23877 L: 23615 D: 60622 Elo +0.84
http://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/5d8d86bd0ebc590f3beb0c88

LTC:
LLR: 2.96 (-2.94,2.94) [0.00,4.00]
Total: 20862 W: 3517 L: 3298 D: 14047 Elo +3.65
http://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/5d8d99cd0ebc590f3beb1899

Bench: 3728191

--------

Where do we go from here?

- It seems strange to me that check extension performed so poorly -- clearly
some of the singular extension conditions are also very important for check
extension. I am not an expert in search, and I do not have any intuition
about which of the eight conditions is/are the culprit. I will try a
succession of eight STC tests to identify the relevant conditions, then try
to replicate this PR for check extension.

- Recent tests interacting with the castle extension may deserve retesting.
I will shortly resubmit a few of my recent castling extension tweaks, rebased
on this PR/commit.

My deepest thanks to @noobpwnftw for the extraordinary CPU donation, and to
all our other fishtest volunteers, who made it possible for a speculative LTC
to pass in 70 minutes!

Closes https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/pull/2331
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Author: Alain SAVARD
Date: Fri Sep 27 12:37:49 2019 +0200
Timestamp: 1569580669

Simplify RookOnPawn

Remove the RookOnPawn logic (for rook on rank 5 and above aligning with pawns
on same row or file) which was overlapping with a few other parameters.

Inspired by @31m059 interesting result hinting that a direct attack on pawns
instead of PseudoAttacks might work.
http://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/5d89a7c70ebc595091801b8d

After a few attempts by me and @31m059, and some long STC greens but red LTC,
as a proof of concept I first tried a local SPSA at VSTC trying to tune related
rook psqt rows, and mainly some rook related stuff in evaluate.cpp.
Result was STC green, but still red LTC,

Finally a 100M fishtest SPSA at LTC proved successful both at STC and LTC.

All this was possible with the awesome fishtest contributors.
At some point, I had 850 workers on the last test !

Run as a simplification

STC
http://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/5d8d68f40ebc590f3beaf171
LLR: 2.96 (-2.94,2.94) [-3.00,1.00]
Total: 7399 W: 1693 L: 1543 D: 4163 Elo +7.04

LTC
http://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/5d8d70270ebc590f3beaf63c
LLR: 2.95 (-2.94,2.94) [-3.00,1.00]
Total: 41617 W: 6981 L: 6894 D: 27742 Elo +0.73

Closes https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/pull/2329

bench: 4037914
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Author: Joost VandeVondele
Date: Fri Sep 27 00:16:49 2019 +0200
Timestamp: 1569536209

Remove custom mutex implementation

As part of the investigation of the hang caused by an incorrect implementation
of condition_variable in libwinpthread, it was realized that our custom Mutex
implementation is no longer needed. Prior to lazySMP this custom implementation
resulted in a 30% speedup, but now no speed difference can be measured as no
mutex is used on the hot path in lazySMP.

https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/issues/2291
https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/issues/2309#issuecomment-533733393 https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/issues/2309#issuecomment-533737515

The interest of this patch is that it removes platform-specific code, which is
always less tested.

No functional change.
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Author: Stéphane Nicolet
Date: Thu Sep 26 23:27:48 2019 +0200
Timestamp: 1569533268

Restore development version (revert previous commit)

Revert the previous patch now that the binary for the super-final
of TCEC season 16 has been sent.

Maybe the feature of showing the name of compiler will be added to the
master branch in the future. But we may use a cleaner way to code it, see
some ideas using the Makefile approach at the end of pull request #2327 :
https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/pull/2327

Bench: 3618154
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Author: Stéphane Nicolet
Date: Wed Sep 25 22:28:51 2019 +0200
Timestamp: 1569443331

Temporary patch to show the compiler for TCEC submission

This patch shows a description of the compiler used to compile Stockfish,
when starting from the console.

Usage:

```
./stockfish
compiler
```

Example of output:

```
Stockfish 240919 64 POPCNT by T. Romstad, M. Costalba, J. Kiiski, G. Linscott

Compiled by clang++ 9.0.0 on Apple
__VERSION__ macro expands to: 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 9.0.0 (clang-900.0.38)
```

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Author: Stéphane Nicolet
Date: Tue Sep 24 12:54:02 2019 +0200
Timestamp: 1569322442

Increase weight for supported pawns

This patch changes the weight for counting supports of pawns
from 17 to 21. Hopefully Stockfish will accept to play a bit
more of closed or semi-closed positions.

STC:
LLR: 2.95 (-2.94,2.94) [0.00,4.00]
Total: 13822 W: 3158 L: 2939 D: 7725 Elo +5.51
http://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/5d89c3a10ebc595091802379

LTC:
LLR: 2.96 (-2.94,2.94) [0.00,4.00]
Total: 63066 W: 10590 L: 10236 D: 42240 Elo +1.95
http://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/5d89ca7f0ebc595091802680

Future work: try to tweak the evaluation to better understand
the French structures.

Closes https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/pull/2326

Bench: 3618154
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Author: nickpelling
Date: Tue Sep 24 10:05:54 2019 +0200
Timestamp: 1569312354

Clarify the mapping of files to queenside

This patch replaces the obscure expressions mapping files ABCDEFGH to ABCDDCBA
by explicite calls to an auxiliary function:

old: f = min(f, ~f)
new: f = map_to_queenside(f)

We used the Golbolt web site (https://godbolt.org) to check that the current
code for the auxiliary function is optimal.

STC:
LLR: 2.96 (-2.94,2.94) [-3.00,1.00]
Total: 30292 W: 6756 L: 6651 D: 16885 Elo +1.20
http://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/5d8676720ebc5971531d6aa1

Achieved with a bit of help from Sopel97, snicolet and vondele, thanks everyone!
Closes https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/pull/2325

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Author: xoto10
Date: Mon Sep 23 09:50:34 2019 +0200
Timestamp: 1569225034

Encourage rook lift to third rank

This change to the Rook psqt encourages rook lifts to the third rank
on the two center files.

STC 10+0.1 th 1 :
LLR: 2.96 (-2.94,2.94) [0.00,4.00]
Total: 40654 W: 9028 L: 8704 D: 22922 Elo +2.77
http://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/5d885da60ebc5906dd3e9fcd

LTC 60+0.6 th 1 :
LLR: 2.96 (-2.94,2.94) [0.00,4.00]
Total: 56963 W: 9530 L: 9196 D: 38237 Elo +2.04
http://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/5d88618c0ebc5906dd3ea45f

Thanks to @snicolet for mentioning that Komodo does this a lot and
Stockfish doesn't, which gave me the idea for this patch, and to
@noobpwnftw for providing cores to fishtest which allowed very quick
testing.

Future work: perhaps this can be refined somehow to encourage this
on other files, my attempts have failed.

Closes https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/pull/2322

Bench: 3950249
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Author: Stéphane Nicolet
Date: Mon Sep 23 09:10:28 2019 +0200
Timestamp: 1569222628

Revert "Clarify the mapping of files to queenside"

This reverts commit 7756344d5d2b93970e7cd423f8cbf6fb1da11b74.
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Author: Stéphane Nicolet
Date: Mon Sep 23 08:54:20 2019 +0200
Timestamp: 1569221660

Clarify the mapping of files to queenside

Author: @nickpelling

We replace in the code the obscure expressions mapping files ABCDEFGH to ABCDDCBA
by an explicite call to an auxiliary function :

old: f = min(f, ~f)
new: f = map_to_queenside(f)

We used the Golbolt web site (https://godbolt.org) to find the optimal code
for the auxiliary function.

STC:
LLR: 2.96 (-2.94,2.94) [-3.00,1.00]
Total: 30292 W: 6756 L: 6651 D: 16885 Elo +1.20
http://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/5d8676720ebc5971531d6aa1

No functional change
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Author: Joost VandeVondele
Date: Mon Sep 23 07:29:00 2019 +0200
Timestamp: 1569216540

More random draw evaluations

Use the randomized draw function value_draw() also for draw evalutions.

This extends the earlier commit
https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/commit/97d2cc9a9c1c4b6ff1b470676fa18c7fc6509886
which did this only for 3folds.

As in that case, this test was yellow at STC and LTC, but green at VLTC,
indicative of the fact that the higher the drawrate, the more likely this
idea is beneficial.

STC:
LLR: -2.96 (-2.94,2.94) [0.50,4.50]
Total: 83573 W: 18584 L: 18335 D: 46654 Elo +1.04
http://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/5d84e44d0ebc5971531d4f94

LTC:
LLR: -2.96 (-2.94,2.94) [0.00,3.50]
Total: 92252 W: 15240 L: 15160 D: 61852 Elo +0.30
http://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/5d865dd90ebc5971531d68e1

VLTC: 120+1.2 @ 2th
LLR: 2.96 (-2.94,2.94) [0.00,3.50]
Total: 51902 W: 7323 L: 7028 D: 37551 Elo +1.97
http://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/5d8763620ebc595f57c22b15

Closes https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/pull/2321

Bench: 3441237
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Author: protonspring
Date: Mon Sep 23 07:12:32 2019 +0200
Timestamp: 1569215552

Simplify connected pawn scoring

When scoring the connected pawns, replace the intricate ternary expressions
choosing the coefficient by a simpler addition of boolean conditions:

` value = Connected * (2 + phalanx - opposed) `

This is the map showing the old coefficients and the new ones:

```
phalanx and unopposed: 3x -> 3x
phalanx and opposed: 1.5x -> 2x
not phalanx and unopposed: 2x -> 2x
not phalanx and opposed: 1x -> 1x
```

STC
LLR: 2.95 (-2.94,2.94) [-3.00,1.00]
Total: 11354 W: 2579 L: 2437 D: 6338 Elo +4.35
http://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/5d8151f00ebc5971531d244f

LTC
LLR: 2.96 (-2.94,2.94) [-3.00,1.00]
Total: 41221 W: 7001 L: 6913 D: 27307 Elo +0.74
http://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/5d818f930ebc5971531d26d6

Bench: 3959889

blah
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Author: Joost VandeVondele
Date: Mon Sep 23 06:47:59 2019 +0200
Timestamp: 1569214079

Acknowledge fishtest authors

Explicitly acknowledge fishtest authors.
Their efforts are almost invisible, but essential for the project.

Many thanks to https://github.com/glinscott/fishtest/blob/master/AUTHORS !

No functional change.
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Author: noobpwnftw
Date: Mon Sep 16 15:09:45 2019 +0200
Timestamp: 1568639385

Raise stack size to 8MB for pthreads

It seems there is no other way to specify stack size on std::thread than linker
flags and the effective flags are named differently in many toolchains. On
toolchains where pthread is always available, this patch changes the stack
size change in our C++ code via pthread to ensure a minimum stack size of 8MB,
instead of relying on linker defaults which may be platform-specific.

Also raises default stack size on OSX to current Linux default (8MB) just to
be safe.

Closes https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/pull/2303

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Author: Stéphane Nicolet
Date: Mon Sep 16 01:37:39 2019 +0200
Timestamp: 1568590659

Scale down endgame factor when shuffling

This patch decreases the endgame scale factor using the 50 moves counter.
Looking at some games with this patch, it seems to have two effects on
the playing style:

1) when no progress can be made in late endgames (for instance in fortresses
or opposite bishops endgames) the evaluation will be largely tamed down
towards a draw value.

2) more interestingly, there is also a small effect in the midgame play because
Stockfish will panic a little bit if there are more than four consecutive
shuffling moves with an advantage: the engine will try to move a pawn or to
exchange a piece to keep the advantage, so the follow-ups of the position
will be discovered earlier by the alpha-beta search.

passed STC:
LLR: 2.95 (-2.94,2.94) [0.50,4.50]
Total: 23017 W: 5080 L: 4805 D: 13132 Elo +4.15
http://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/5d7e4aef0ebc59069c36fc74

passed LTC:
LLR: 2.95 (-2.94,2.94) [0.00,3.50]
Total: 30746 W: 5171 L: 4911 D: 20664 Elo +2.94
http://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/5d7e513d0ebc59069c36ff26

Pull request: https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/pull/2304

Bench: 4272173
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Author: Vizvezdenec
Date: Sun Sep 15 00:32:54 2019 +0200
Timestamp: 1568500374

Introduce midgame initiative

This patch finally introduces something that was tried for years: midgame score
dependance on complexity of position. More precisely, if the position is very
simplified and the complexity measure calculated in the initiative() function
is inferior to -50 by an amount d, then we add this value d to the midgame score.

One example of play of this patch will be (again!) 4 vs 3 etc same flank endgames
where sides have a lot of non-pawn material: 4 vs 3 draw mostly remains the same
draw even if we add a lot of equal material to both sides.

STC run was stopped after 200k games (and not converging):
LLR: -1.75 (-2.94,2.94) [0.50,4.50]
Total: 200319 W: 44197 L: 43310 D: 112812 Elo +1.54
http://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/5d7cfdb10ebc5902d386572c

passed LTC:
LLR: 2.95 (-2.94,2.94) [0.00,3.50]
Total: 41051 W: 6858 L: 6570 D: 27623 Elo +2.44
http://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/5d7d14680ebc5902d3866196

This is the first and not really precise version, a lot of other stuff can be
tried on top of it (separate complexity for middlegame, some more terms, even
simple retuning of values).

Bench: 4248476
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Author: Stéphane Nicolet
Date: Sat Sep 14 08:33:00 2019 +0200
Timestamp: 1568442780

Assorted trivial cleanups

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Author: 31m059
Date: Sat Sep 14 07:47:05 2019 +0200
Timestamp: 1568440025

Use queens of either color in RookOnQueenFile

The recently-added RookOnQueenFile evaluation term (36e4a86) provided a bonus
for placing our rook on the same file as an enemy queen.

Here, we relax a condition in this bonus, broadening its effect to any queen.
It is also strategically desirable to place the rook on the same file as a friendly
queen, so the restriction on the queen's color is removed.

STC:
LLR: 2.95 (-2.94,2.94) [-3.00,1.00]
Total: 66856 W: 14847 L: 14815 D: 37194 Elo +0.17
http://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/5d7b3c6a0ebc5902d385bcf5

LTC:
LLR: 2.95 (-2.94,2.94) [-3.00,1.00]
Total: 86786 W: 14264 L: 14248 D: 58274 Elo +0.06
http://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/5d7b4e9b0ebc5902d385c178

Closes https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/pull/2302

Bench: 3703909
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Author: Stéphane Nicolet
Date: Sat Sep 14 07:34:19 2019 +0200
Timestamp: 1568439259

Update Makefile documentation

Follow-up to previous commit. Update the documentation for the user when using `make`,
to show the preferred bmi2 compile in the advanced examples section.

Note: I made a mistake in the previous commit comment, the documentation is shown when
using `make` or `make help`, not `make --help`.

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Author: Joost VandeVondele
Date: Sat Sep 14 07:11:23 2019 +0200
Timestamp: 1568437883

Add sse4 if bmi2 is enabled

The only change done to the Makefile to get a somewhat faster binary as
discussed in #2291 is to add -msse4 to the compile options of the bmi2 build.
Since all processors supporting bmi2 also support sse4 this can be done easily.
It is a useful step to avoid sending around custom and poorly tested builds.

The speedup isn't enough to pass [0,4] but it is roughly 1.15Elo and a LOS of 90%:
LLR: -2.95 (-2.94,2.94) [0.00,4.00]
Total: 93009 W: 20519 L: 20316 D: 52174 Elo +0.76

Also rewrite the documentation for the user when using `make --help`, so that
the order of architectures for x86-64 has the more performant build one on top.

Closes https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/pull/2300

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Author: Vizvezdenec
Date: Thu Sep 12 10:33:18 2019 +0200
Timestamp: 1568277198

Scale down complexity for almost unwinnable endgames

This patch greatly scales down complexity of endgames when the
following conditions are all true together:

- pawns are all on one flank
- stronger side king is not outflanking weaker side
- no passed pawns are present

This should improve stockfish evaluation of obvious draws 4 vs 3, 3 vs 2
and 2 vs 1 pawns in rook/queen/knight/bishop single flank endgames where
strong side can not make progress.

passed STC
LLR: 2.94 (-2.94,2.94) [0.50,4.50]
Total: 15843 W: 3601 L: 3359 D: 8883 Elo +5.31

passed LTC
LLR: 2.96 (-2.94,2.94) [0.00,3.50]
Total: 121275 W: 20107 L: 19597 D: 81571 Elo +1.46

Closes https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/pull/2298

Bench: 3954190

==========================

How to continue from there?

a) This could be a powerful idea for refining some parts of the evaluation
function, a bit like when we try quadratics or other equations to emphasize
certain situations (xoto10).

b) Some other combinaison values for this bonus can be done further, or
overall retuning of weight and offset while keeping the formula simple.
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Author: xoto10
Date: Thu Sep 12 10:05:35 2019 +0200
Timestamp: 1568275535

Bonus for rook on same file as their queen

This patch creates a simple bonus for a rook that is on the same file as the
opponent's queen.

STC 10+0.1 th 1 :
LLR: 2.95 (-2.94,2.94) [0.50,4.50]
Total: 45609 W: 10120 L: 9733 D: 25756 Elo +2.95
http://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/5d79895a0ebc5902d385484a

LTC 60+0.6 th 1 :
LLR: 2.96 (-2.94,2.94) [0.00,3.50]
Total: 51651 W: 8606 L: 8288 D: 34757 Elo +2.14
http://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/5d79a0850ebc5902d3854d27

Many thanks to @noobpwnftw for providing the extra cpu resources for fishtest,
which led to me doing these tests.

Closes https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/pull/2297

Bench: 4024461
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Author: protonspring
Date: Thu Sep 12 09:44:40 2019 +0200
Timestamp: 1568274280

Simplify Weak Lever

This is a simplification that integrated WeakLever into doubled pawns.
Since we already check for !support for Doubled pawns, it is trivial
to check for weak lever by just checking more_than_one(lever).

We also introduce the Score * bool operation overload to remove some
casts in the code.

STC
LLR: 2.95 (-2.94,2.94) [-3.00,1.00]
Total: 26757 W: 5842 L: 5731 D: 15184 Elo +1.44
http://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/5d77ee220ebc5902d384e5a4

Closes https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/pull/2295

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Author: Stefan Geschwentner
Date: Wed Sep 11 18:37:08 2019 +0200
Timestamp: 1568219828

Update reverse move stats

For a good quiet non-pawn move consider the reverse move as bad
and update the main history with a negative stat bonus.

STC:
LLR: 2.95 (-2.94,2.94) [0.50,4.50]
Total: 19292 W: 4401 L: 4141 D: 10750 Elo +4.68
http://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/5d7751d50ebc594e7864973c

LTC:
LLR: 2.95 (-2.94,2.94) [0.00,3.50]
Total: 111952 W: 18762 L: 18275 D: 74915 Elo +1.51
http://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/5d7771cf0ebc594e786498fa

Closes https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/pull/2294

Bench: 3914238
see source
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Author: Stefan Geschwentner
Date: Mon Aug 26 08:49:55 2019 +0200
Timestamp: 1566802195

Tweak Late Move Reduction at root

Maintain best move counter at the root and allow there only moves which has a counter
of zero for Late Move Reduction. For compensation only the first three moves are excluded
from Late Move Reduction per default instead the first four moves.

What we can further do:

- here we use a simple counting scheme but perhaps some aging to fade out early iterations
could be helpful
- use the best move counter also at inner nodes for LMR and/or pruning

STC:
LLR: 2.95 (-2.94,2.94) [0.50,4.50]
Total: 17414 W: 3984 L: 3733 D: 9697 Elo +5.01
http://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/5d6234bb0ebc5939d09f2aa2

LTC:
LLR: 2.96 (-2.94,2.94) [0.00,3.50]
Total: 38058 W: 6448 L: 6166 D: 25444 Elo +2.57
http://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/5d62681a0ebc5939d09f2f27

Closes https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/pull/2282

Bench: 3568210
see source

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