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Subject: Re: Must I do KingInCheck after every move (What now Robert) ?

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 19:29:07 07/26/00

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On July 25, 2000 at 22:04:28, Larry Griffiths wrote:

>On July 24, 2000 at 21:28:49, Larry Griffiths wrote:
>
>My original Bruteforce for producing valid moves counts ran in 121 seconds.
>I implemented extracting all the captures at the next ply and searching
>thru them to find a king.  I return if I find a king and adjust the move counts
>at the previous ply so that they will be correct.  My counts match just like my
>original did... Except that it took 404 seconds!  Is this the method that you
>use in Craft's perft command Bob?  The only thing I can think to do is use my
>old method at the leaves of the tree...
>


I am getting confused here.  Are we talking about an alpha/beta search, or
about 'perft' type testing?  Let's define that before I answer more.  I don't
try to optimize my perft results, I only use those for sanity checking the
move generator and board update code after major changes...




>Larry.
>
>Elapsed Time= 404.78 seconds
>
>Ply ----CAPTURES--- -----MOVES----- -----TOTAL----- ----Invalid----
>  1               3              47              50               1
>  2             152           1,973           2,125             297
>  3           6,768          89,294          96,062          12,750
>  4         314,667       3,885,858       4,200,525         573,784
>  5      14,297,742     177,121,633     191,419,375      25,863,251
>    _______________ _______________ _______________ _______________
>         14,619,332     181,098,805     195,718,137      26,450,083
>
>          Captures/Moves Per Second=        483,516
>
>>These were generated using a board where all of the pawns have been removed...
>>
>>AND Again spinning thru the piece list a piece at a time generating both
>>captures and moves for a piece but only doing capture moves.  Then spinning
>>through the non-captures list and doing those moves...
>>
>>Elapsed Time= 110.34 seconds
>>
>>Ply ----CAPTURES--- -----MOVES----- -----TOTAL----- ----Invalid----
>>  1               3              48              51               0
>>  2             164           2,259           2,423               0
>>  3           7,826         101,559         109,385               0
>>  4         362,556       4,452,299       4,814,855               0
>>  5      16,834,633     202,741,901     219,576,534               0
>>    _______________ _______________ _______________ _______________
>>         17,205,182     207,298,066     224,503,248               0
>>
>>          Captures/Moves Per Second=      2,034,594
>>
>>AND this is what it looks like spinning thru the piece list a piece at a time
>>generating both captures and moves for that piece with the next ply returning if
>>it will capture a king...
>>
>>Elapsed Time= 113.81 seconds
>>
>>Ply ----CAPTURES--- -----MOVES----- -----TOTAL----- ----Invalid----
>>  1               3              48              51               0
>>  2             164           2,278           2,442               0
>>  3           7,869         107,346         115,215               0
>>  4         380,862       4,873,707       5,254,569               0
>>  5      18,118,741     227,020,855     245,139,596               0
>>    _______________ _______________ _______________ _______________
>>         18,507,639     232,004,234     250,511,873               0
>>
>>          Captures/Moves Per Second=      2,201,102
>>
>>>
>>>WITH INCHECK...
>>>
>>>Elapsed Time= 121.05 seconds
>>>
>>>Ply ----CAPTURES--- -----MOVES----- -----TOTAL----- ----Invalid----
>>>  1               3              47              50               1
>>>  2             152           1,973           2,125             297
>>>  3           6,768          89,294          96,062          12,750
>>>  4         314,667       3,885,858       4,200,525         573,784
>>>  5      14,297,742     177,121,633     191,419,375      25,863,251
>>>    _______________ _______________ _______________ _______________
>>>         14,619,332     181,098,805     195,718,137      26,450,083
>>>
>>>          Captures/Moves Per Second=      1,616,877
>>>
>>>WITHOUT INCHECK...
>>>
>>>Elapsed Time= 148.78 seconds
>>>
>>>Ply ----CAPTURES--- -----MOVES----- -----TOTAL----- ----Invalid----
>>>  1               3              48              51               0
>>>  2             166           2,306           2,472               0
>>>  3           8,599         117,795         126,394               0
>>>  4         457,128       5,802,155       6,259,283               0
>>>  5      23,970,850     298,958,050     322,928,900               0
>>>    _______________ _______________ _______________ _______________
>>>         24,436,746     304,880,354     329,317,100               0
>>>
>>>          Captures/Moves Per Second=      2,213,435



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