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Subject: Re: 0x88 and move generator speed - My results

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 21:28:39 01/31/01

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On January 30, 2001 at 17:27:57, Severi Salminen wrote:

>>    - could you please post your results in this test (and your hardware) for
>>your programs, so that I can compare.
>
>Hi!
>
>I am generating about 7'500'000 moves/sec. This is on 300MHz Celeron. On same
>computer Crafty is doing 6'300'000 moves/sec. So I am in this position about 20%
>faster than Crafty. I'd like to know how much Crafty would do on the same
>computer on which you tested your program (Athlon 550) and got that 14'500'000
>moves/s. Just for rough comparison.
>
>Severi


you need one more test.  How quickly can you generate _only_ capture
moves?  That is the biggest part of the total move generation process,
because of the q-search.  And that is a place where bitmaps really shines
brightly.  IE I can generate captures _just_ as quickly as I can generate
non-captures.  I don't have to cull non-captures or anything, after the
fact... I just never generate them in the first place...

0x88 does great at generating everything.  It loses its advantage and then
some when you take generating only captures.  I also can generate legal-only
moves without doing in-check tests...



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