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Subject: Re: 16x16 boards. Can anyone explain?

Author: Dieter Buerssner

Date: 07:14:21 06/20/02

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On June 20, 2002 at 06:27:56, Dan Andersson wrote:

>You don't need to make a memory lookup in the 8x16 or the16x16 board. Thats one
>of the gains.

Yep. But it also needs larger (and possibly less cache efficient) tables, for
example piece square tables for evaluation. Or some "translation array" at this
point. For typical board size tables, this may be no problem. More costly it
will be for a history table.

Regards,
Dieter




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