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Subject: Re: Perft breakdown

Author: Georg v. Zimmermann

Date: 13:14:40 12/02/03

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On December 02, 2003 at 14:35:31, Tom Likens wrote:

>On December 02, 2003 at 14:17:03, Dann Corbit wrote:
>
>>On December 02, 2003 at 07:55:04, Georg v. Zimmermann wrote:
>>
>>>On December 02, 2003 at 03:01:21, Dann Corbit wrote:
>>>
>>>>Does anyone have a perft breakdown by move type (chessman moved)?
>>>>Does anyone have a perft breakdown by capture/non-capture?
>>>>How about special operations like e.p. capture, promotion, checks?
>>>
>>>hi dann,
>>>
>>>i am currently redoing a new program from scratch, perft() is next to implement
>>>this week. If not too many moveGen bugs turn up I should be able to get you the
>>>move type information Tom has not already provided. Unless of course someone
>>>else is faster :)
>>>
>>>What do you need it for ?
>>
>>I am helping another guy with his chess engine, and I wanted to be able to
>>analyze exactly what is going on.  I don't have those counts in mine, and I
>>thought it would be faster to just get the numbers than to implement it in mine
>>and then in his.  At some point, I think I will add it, since it is nice for
>>debugging the move generator.
>>
>>He has a wonderful move generator (in fact, it is very similar to mine, and I
>>never showed it to anyone.)  After I figured out what he was doing, I was pretty
>>surprised, since nobody else does it in the same way.  I think probably both of
>>us got our original ideas from James Swafford's site, and so the similarities
>>are somewhat natural.  But certain features he has added are something I thought
>>that only I had considered.  I have a few more additional features, which I am
>>trying to talk him into adding to his engine.
>
>Dann,
>
>Do you have current a link to James' webpage?  I'd be interested in looking it
>over but Goggle can't seem to find a valid link.
>
>--tom

Me too, or if anyone could mail Galahad sources .. gvzi@gmx.net


Thanks,

Georg



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