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Subject: Re: Question for Hyatt about Alpha/Beta

Author: Russell Reagan

Date: 18:13:45 02/06/04

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On February 06, 2004 at 16:26:26, Sune Fischer wrote:

>Ultimately, in 20+ years when I know the optimal design of a chess program (yeah
>right) I'll be able to make a really good choice of attack table and by then
>I'll might do exactly as you do now, until then I perfer to avoid complexity to
>the widest possible extend. :)

In 20 years when you find the optimal design, we will have 256-bit or 512-bit
computers. Imagine the possibilities there. You could deal with the entire board
at once in your 512-bit registers. To make a move will be a single xor
instruction. It'll be like bitboards on steroids.



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