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Subject: Re: To: Robert Hyatt

Author: John Coffey

Date: 16:50:54 07/24/00

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On July 24, 2000 at 09:14:43, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On July 24, 2000 at 07:29:03, Larry Griffiths wrote:
>
>>On July 23, 2000 at 21:59:58, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>This is on my list to fix, as it is not quite easy to search > 2B nodes and
>>>wrap the counter around...
>>
>>I understand Robert :)
>>
>>Looks like I would have to combine my captures and moves into 1 bitboard to make
>>my bruteforce faster if I want to compete with Crafty's perft command.
>>Im sure that adding castleing and pawn promotion will slow my program down even
>>more.
>>
>>Larry.
>
>There was a typo in my response.  "not quite easy" should be "now quite easy"
>as searching over 1M nps will wrap the counter inside an hour.
>
>Castling and EP really shouldn't slow you down, as you will skip that code
>most of the time.  Just make the "should I do this?" test as efficient as
>possible so that it doesn't impact you when you can't castle, which is most of
>the game...

Please tell me what hardware allows you to search 1M nps?

John Coffey



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