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Subject: Re: Bitboards and Quick Killer

Author: Severi Salminen

Date: 10:45:18 08/15/00

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On August 15, 2000 at 13:43:55, Larry Griffiths wrote:

>Hi,
>
[D] 7k/8/5k/8/8/8/8/5bQk w - - 0 1
>
>Hope this EPD string works :)

You have have those "8"s to make it work.

>
>I am generating capture moves and then AB searching.
>If a cutoff does not occur, then I generate non-capture moves.
>I am coding quick-killer moves into my program.
>The queen move to g7 produces checkmate, but since captures
>are generated first, the killer move is not at the head of the list.
>Should I look at the last killer move and then decide if I
>should generate moves before captures?  Or should I just generate
>captures and non-captures all at once which would eliminate this
>problem all-together?
>
>Larry



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