/*
Texel - A UCI chess engine.
Copyright (C) 2014 Peter Ă–sterlund, peterosterlund2@gmail.com
This program 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
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This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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*/
/*
* tbprobe.hpp
*
* Created on: Jun 2, 2014
* Author: petero
*/
#ifndef TBPROBE_HPP_
#define TBPROBE_HPP_
#include "moveGen.hpp"
#include
class Position;
/**
* Handle tablebase probing.
*/
class TBProbe {
public:
/** Initialize tablebases. */
static void initialize(const std::string& rtbPath);
/**
* Probe syzygy DTZ tablebases.
* @param pos The position to probe. The position can be temporarily modified
* but is restored to original state before function returns.
* @param score The tablebase score. Only modified for tablebase hits.
* The returned score is either 0 or a mate bound. The bound
* is computed by considering the DTZ value and the maximum number
* of zeroing moves before mate.
*/
static bool rtbProbeDTZ(Position& pos, int& score);
/**
* Probe syzygy WDL tablebases.
* @param pos The position to probe. The position can be temporarily modified
* but is restored to original state before function returns.
* @param score The tablebase score. Only modified for tablebase hits.
* The returned score is either 0 or +/- 1.
*/
static bool rtbProbeWDL(Position& pos, int& score);
};
#endif /* TBPROBE_HPP_ */