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Subject: Re: Move Generator

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 16:45:48 12/19/02

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On December 19, 2002 at 19:21:04, Uri Blass wrote:

>On December 19, 2002 at 18:49:56, Dann Corbit wrote:
>
>>On December 19, 2002 at 18:47:22, Joshua Haglund wrote:
>>
>>>Anyone know of a good site(s) for the programming of a (legal) move generator?
>>
>>You'll find a lot more help looking for a pseudo-legal move generator.  I don't
>>think anyone makes a strictly legal move generator (maybe Uri does...)
>
>I did it and chest also did it and I remember that other programmers also did
>it(Miguel started with legal move generator and I remember that peter makanzi
>also does it(or at least did it in the past)).
>
>pseudo legal move generator is the easy way but I do not think that it is better
>and the fact that chest is the best mate solver suggest that legal move
>generator may be better.
>

Good point.  Further, Chest is open source.  Probably a look in there may be
helpful.



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