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Subject: Re: incremental attack tables?

Author: Daniel Shawul

Date: 02:06:43 05/05/04

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On May 05, 2004 at 05:01:55, Uri Blass wrote:

>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

How can incrementally updating attack tables make perft faster?
Infact in my case it slows it down by a factor of 4 or 5.
May be we are comparing different things.

daniel



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