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Subject: Re: Rough comparison between my brain and a wood post.

Author: Andrew Williams

Date: 08:17:48 06/20/00

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On June 20, 2000 at 09:02:26, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On June 20, 2000 at 04:55:22, Dann Corbit wrote:
>
>>On June 20, 2000 at 04:41:47, James Robertson wrote:
>>
>>>Ignore all results from my previous post "Rough comparison between ro....". I
>>>made some stupid coding errors in my test rotated bitboard code. Once fixed the
>>>rotated bitboards look very competitive against 0x88. :) I also found flaws in
>>>my 0x88 code, but they were very minor and I think I caught all of them (correct
>>>move lists are generated in all my test positions).
>>>
>>>I am very happy to continue to use rotated bitboards. Thanks Robert for
>>>inventing them, and thanks Tim for showing me how to use them!
>>
>>What was the timing ratio for various operations between the two methods?
>>
>>For the 0x88, what board size did you use?
>
>
>For 0x88 you don't have much choice... it has to be 128, where you use the left
>half for the board, the right half (64 squares) are off the board.  There is
>really a top half of 128 words also, but 0x88 eliminates references to them
>due to the 0x80 bit not being allowed.

Christophe Theron posted a few interesting pointers to using 16x16 instead of
16x8 last week (I think).

Andrew



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