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Subject: Re: incremental attack tables?

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 04:42:30 05/05/04

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On May 05, 2004 at 07:38:55, Daniel Shawul wrote:

>On May 05, 2004 at 07:30:27, Vincent Diepeveen 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.
>>
>>it's eating a few % system time in diep so i really wouldn't possibly know how
>>that could slow me down by 30%.
>>
>>However important is to realize where you use the attacktable.
>>
>>In diep i use it for move ordering, i use it in my evaluation function and i'm
>>not using lazy eval (but even with lazy eval it would be way faster.
>
>   I also use it for all of the things you said above. But i also use lazy eval
>which gives a push to the non-incremental attack table move generation. If i
>don't use lazy eval the slowdown will be roughly 20%.
>
>>
>>Optimizing the code is not so easy. My move generator is optimized for
>>incremental attacktable generation (and especially if you would use unsigned
>>variables with it). Perhaps you should take a look at it.
>
>   I didn't optimize the move generator yet because in non-incremental attack
>table update i loop through all piece updating attack information and generating
>moves simultaneously.
>I want to have a look at your code. Where can i find it?

ship me an email and i'll give you a reply with it.

things like move generation are just a matter of good implementation, that's
all.

eating 30% systemtime is just too much. it's like 2.4% or so in diep

>daniel
>
>>
>>>best
>>>daniel



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