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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