Author: Bas Hamstra
Date: 12:57:02 10/22/00
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On October 22, 2000 at 11:26:58, Severi Salminen wrote:
>Hi!
>
>I have started again from scratch to program a chess engine, now with C. I came
>to this solution to generate rook moves without rotated bitboards:
>
>I wont show you everything :) but here is some code from my mov_gen routine. E
>holds all the pieces on board, j is the position of our Rook (0=H1 and 63=A8). F
>is an empty bitboard and D holds the horizontal squares which we can move to
>(calculated before this)
>
>
>// Aligning the file info to right corner of bitboard and clearing all other
>// bits:
> E=(E>>(j&7))&0x0101010101010101;
>
> for(k=0, F=0;k<8;k++)
> {
> F|=E;
> E>>=7;
> }
> F&=0xff;
>
>//After the loop F holds the file info and we can fetch the squares from
>//a pre-compiled table and OR them with the horizontal destination squares
>
> D|=FileMoves[j>>3][F]<<(j&7);
>
>What I'd like to know if anyone has tried to compare this method with rotated
>bitboards and I'd like to know if this is a lot slower (or faster;). I _must_ do
>this loop (which can be optimized a little...) for every rook but I don't have
>to update rotated bitboards at all after I make moves. Maybe the net speed is
>quite equal and depends on move ordering and so on...Opinions?
>
>Severi
I suspect it is slower overall. For the vertical part of the rookmoves, for
example, you need only 1 memory lookup with rotated BB's. The "state" of the
rank you get cheap by treating the Occupied90 BB as a character array, and
fetching the right char. Then you fetch RankMoves[State][Sq] from a table.
Of course in your case, you save a lot of big lookuptables and so cache
trashing. But I don't suspect it comes close overall.
If you don't want the big lookup tables, you probably can better try the
unrotated version where you scan for blocks with a table lookup. I and others
have had goods results with it, speedwise, and it's VERY easy.
Bas.
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