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Chess engine: Stockfish 22032822 NNUE for Windows and Linux (+4,35 ELO)

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Stockfish - UCI chess engine, compiled by Michael Chaly
Rating CEDR=3506 (2 place)

Timestamp: 1648499829

In movepicker increase priority for moves that evade a capture

This idea is a mix of koivisto idea of threat history and heuristic that was simplified some time ago in LMR - decreasing reduction for moves that evade a capture. Instead of doing so in LMR this patch does it in movepicker - to do this it calculates squares that are attacked by different piece types and pieces that are located on this squares and boosts up weight of moves that make this pieces land on a square that is not under threat.
Boost is greater for pieces with bigger material values.
Special thanks to koivisto and seer authors for explaining me ideas behind threat history.

Passed STC:
https://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/62406e473b32264b9aa1478b
LLR: 2.94 (-2.94,2.94) <0.00,2.50>
Total: 19816 W: 5320 L: 5072 D: 9424 Elo +4.35
Ptnml(0-2): 86, 2165, 5172, 2385, 100

Passed LTC:
https://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/62407f2e3b32264b9aa149c8
LLR: 2.94 (-2.94,2.94) <0.50,3.00>
Total: 51200 W: 13805 L: 13500 D: 23895 Elo +2.07
Ptnml(0-2): 44, 5023, 15164, 5322, 47
bench 7736491

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