From 8e3e22b3d4f214e12aa83771be543aac1196d713 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Joost VandeVondele <Joost.VandeVondele@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2025 21:32:18 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Replace depth increase condition with !opponentWorsening

Passed simplification STC
LLR: 2.94 (-2.94,2.94) <-1.75,0.25>
Total: 220544 W: 57417 L: 57399 D: 105728
Ptnml(0-2): 816, 26554, 55540, 26520, 842
https://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/678970e38082388fa0cbfe02

Passed simplification LTC
LLR: 2.94 (-2.94,2.94) <-1.75,0.25>
Total: 132600 W: 33868 L: 33760 D: 64972
Ptnml(0-2): 126, 14770, 36390, 14898, 116
https://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/678accabc00c743bc9e9fc7f

closes https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/pull/5798

bench 1632964
---
 src/search.cpp | 4 +---
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/search.cpp b/src/search.cpp
index d5e86ca9444..e99d5d3fc9f 100644
--- a/src/search.cpp
+++ b/src/search.cpp
@@ -781,10 +781,8 @@ Value Search::Worker::search(
 
     opponentWorsening = ss->staticEval + (ss - 1)->staticEval > 2;
 
-    if (priorReduction >= 3 && ss->staticEval + (ss - 1)->staticEval < 0)
-    {
+    if (priorReduction >= 3 && !opponentWorsening)
         depth++;
-    }
 
     // Step 7. Razoring (~1 Elo)
     // If eval is really low, skip search entirely and return the qsearch value.