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Add Late Move Pruning - #6
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Adds a history-aware Late Move Pruning (LMP) baseline to IronPhoenix for isolated strength testing.
LMP policy
3 + depth * depthThreshold behavior
The threshold still grows with depth, so LMP naturally becomes harder to trigger in deeper nodes even though there is no explicit depth cap.
Examples:
Scope
Only
src/search.cppchanges. Existing PVS, LMR, SEE pruning, history updates, TT behavior, aspiration windows, and comments are preserved.Please SPRT this branch against
mainby itself before combining it with IIR or NMP.