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Subject: Re: late move reductions (and another question)

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 11:50:55 03/02/06

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On March 02, 2006 at 13:08:00, Alessandro Scotti wrote:

>On March 02, 2006 at 11:45:14, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>notice the index calculation above...  from * 64 + to, which certainly gives a
>>12 bit index into a 12 * 64 table.  That has to be a bug, or else I am missing
>>something.  Note that someone just sent me the pieces above, not the entire
>>fruit source so I have not looked at the surrounding code to see if there is
>>more to the story...
>
>I haven't checked Fruit code on that, but I use two separate tables in Kiwi, a
>2*64*64 table (side/from/to) for move ordering, and a 12*64 (piece/to) table for
>reductions.


OK.  what is the justification?  Have you compared them?  (I have not tried the
piece/to approach so have no data).  Real question has to be is piece-to better
than from-to in any sense other than being a bit more cache-friendly???




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