Author: Russell Reagan
Date: 05:16:02 12/20/02
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On December 20, 2002 at 07:49:36, Sune Fischer wrote: >Can you think of a better word, so we don't have to steal anything from the >movelist updaters? After thinking about it (and looking up the exact definitions), I think incremental move generation is better suited for "generate captures, generate non-captures, etc.", and perhaps something like "evolutionary" move generation is better for generating only the changes from ply to ply. The word incremental seems to carry an allusion to "an increasing" or "building up" of something, and it is possible that at ply N you have 30 legal moves, and at ply N+1 you have 2 legal moves, which is certainly not an increase (and therefore not incremental). To increment a variable (ex. i++) is always to increase its value (except in the case of wrap-around). Evolutionary makes more sense, but it also carries a hint of "forward progress" with it (which implies "more"). So maybe "differential" move generation works, since a difference can be more or less. That's my best guess. :) Russell
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