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Subject: Re: a bitboard question

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 10:36:14 01/14/01

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On January 14, 2001 at 12:54:35, Dan Andersson wrote:

>Hope you don't mean using both 64-bit bitboards and 64*32 bit attack board. That
>seems utterly redundant. Incremental updates can be made reasonably fast using
>some clever data structures for each piece on the board.I assume you mean 64 bit
>bitboards by 'bitboards',IMO I really think people should realise that there are
>many kinds of bitboards. If I had access to a machine with 128 or 256 bit words
>I would use that size bitboards.
>
>Regards Dan Andersson

I think that you do not answer the questions where and how to use attackboard.

I know almost nothing about bitboards and I am interested to know the fastest
known way to write some evaluation functions with bitboard in order to compare
between bitboard with alternative methods.

I defined a possible mobility square table evaluation and I am interested to
know the number of nodes per second that programs with bitboard can generate and
also the number of nodes per second that programs without bitboard can generate.

I think the right way to compare bitboard with alternative methods is to compare
the same evaluation function with bitboard and without bitboard.

A post with a source code of an evaluation function that calculates mobility
square tables with bitboard and a source code of an evaluation function that
calculates the same without bitboard and comparison between the speed of both
evaluations will be an excellent reply to my question.

Uri



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