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Subject: Re: to rotate or not?

Author: Paul Byrne

Date: 20:55:14 04/26/00

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On April 25, 2000 at 06:50:18, Andrew Williams wrote:
>
>Hi
>
>The fen string for the position you describe is:
>
>r1bqk2r/pppp1ppp/2n2n2/2b1p3/2B1P3/2N2N2/PPPP1PPP/R1BQK2R w KQkq - 0 5
>
>PostModernist is a 0x88 program, but it keeps up-to-date 32-bit attack
>records, which it uses for capture generation (amongst other things). PM
>can call generate_captures 510k times per second on a PIII-450 in this
>position. I'd be very interested in other programs' performances.
>
>Andrew

Guildenstern just uses an array of 64 squares + piece lists, and is doing
320K GenerateCaptures per second on that position on a K6-2 500.
However, G does have extra code to insure all generated moves are legal.

-paul



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