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Subject: Re: Bitboards and Quick Killer

Author: Tim Foden

Date: 02:32:23 08/16/00

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On August 15, 2000 at 19:30:58, Tom Kerrigan wrote:

>On August 15, 2000 at 17:14:20, Brian Richardson wrote:
>
>>I would think you would want to try the killer moves before even generating
>>captures and non-captures (assuming you already have the killer move, of
>
>This is a common mistake. For all the programs I know about, searching captures
>before killers is a big win. (At least winning or swapping captures...)

I guess that it therefore begs this question:  does this mean that you should
never store a capture move in a killer (as it is a total waste of time)?

Cheers, Tim.



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