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Subject: Re: Incremental move generation !

Author: Anthony Cozzie

Date: 19:28:48 10/28/02

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On October 28, 2002 at 19:19:23, Nagendra Singh Tomar wrote:

>In incremental move generation I understand that we have different phases of
>move generation viz GEN_HASH_MOVE, GEN_KILLER_MOVE, GEN_CAP etc
>My question is, suppose we generate the lone hash move in the GEN_HASH_MOVE
>phase and suppose (unfortunately) it did'nt result in a cutoff so we have to
>generate more moves, say we are in GEN_CAP phase, do we test each move whether
>it has already been tried in GEN_HASH_MOVE and GEN_KILLER_MOVE phase OR do we
>simply generate all the moves without worrying whether the hash move (or killer
>moves) gets tried twice.
>
>regds
>tomar

If you do this right it should be a single compare instruction, so its not
really very much work.



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