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Subject: Re: incremental attack tables?

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 02:01:55 05/05/04

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On May 05, 2004 at 04:40:43, Andrew Williams wrote:

>On May 05, 2004 at 03:03:15, Daniel Shawul wrote:
>
>>Hello
>>
>>Is incremental attack table slower than creating them on fly?
>>I have both versions working properly right now but the incremental
>>one further drops NPS by 30% , though InCheck and Checks are for free in this
>>case. Anybody have similar experience? I am sure i have made no mistake in
>>updating because i checked it with the known perft positions and node count is
>>perfect.
>>
>>best
>>daniel
>
>It's a very long time since I implemented them, but at the time I compared the
>incremental ones were faster. I can't remember exactly how much faster it was,
>but I think it was of the order of 10 to 15%, if only because that is what a
>comment in an old source file says. What I don't know is if this was *after*
>thorough debugging.
>
>Andrew

I have different attack tables.

Last time that I implemented incremental tables was a long time ago before I had
a chess program.

I did not make notes to see  how much faster it was but it was more than being
1000% faster in calculating perft.

Uri



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