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Subject: Re: Is crafty the fastest program to calculate perft with no hash tables?

Author: Paul Byrne

Date: 22:08:59 06/20/01

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>Oh, btw, LambChop can count the 6ply tree from the root in 20sec on PIII
>1000mhz.  It is faster than crafty because it counts moves at depth 5 not
>positions at depth 6 and hence effectively it has to search one ply less in the
>tree.  It can do this because I have implemented a fully legal static move
>generator that does not need makemove to exclude illegal moves.

Hmm.  I need to do some work.  :)  G2K also generates only legal moves
and needs 23 seconds on a 1.2 GHz athlon.

I generate only legal moves because G2K plays a bunch of variants and it
makes life easier to isolate the what-makes-a-move-legal stuff in the move
generator... :)

-paul



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