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Subject: Re: Should I test for hash move legality?

Author: Bruce Moreland

Date: 10:38:24 12/30/00

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On December 30, 2000 at 04:13:23, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:

>On December 30, 2000 at 03:25:46, Bruce Moreland wrote:
>
>>Mine uses a move table, so I just store a pointer to the move table element for
>>the best move in the hash table.  When I generate moves I will notice if that
>>move is generated, and I will search it first.
>>
>>bruce
>
>Interesting...so you do not try to avoid doing the movegen?
>
>I always thought there should be a significant speed advantage
>when doing things the way Bob describes so I wonder why you do
>not do it.

I didn't want to maintain a bunch of complicated logic to handle this.  I may
have tried once and seen not much improvement, but I can't remember for sure.

bruce

>
>--
>GCP



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