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Subject: Re: Anybody else using this hair-brained concept...

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 20:13:09 07/19/00

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On July 19, 2000 at 17:56:44, Larry Griffiths wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I have been re-programming my chess engine lately and have been implementing a
>concept that I saw posted here about a year ago.
>
>The concept is to look out from the FROM and TO squares when a piece is moved to
>determine what pieces need to have their moves re-generated.
>
>I am having second thoughts about this since it is about equal to
>generating moves for 2 Queens, 2 Kings, 2 Knights and 2 Pawns looking out
>from the FROM and TO squares.
>
>Is anybody using something like this, or even tried this?
>
>Larry



The original chess 4.x used this incremental move generation scheme.  I did it
early on in crafty, but found that the compute-on-the-fly approach using rotated
bitmaps was faster and simpler.  But there is nothing basically wrong with the
incremental approach, other than complexity...



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