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Subject: Re: Bitboard VS array board ,speed difference in movegen()

Author: Severi Salminen

Date: 02:58:48 02/28/01

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>>Oh yes, I think I have read about this somewhere. Actually it was Levy's Chess
>>Computer Handbook. It introduced a move generator that only alters the list of
>>all possible moves if necessary. I think it would slow things down a lot.
>>
>>Severi
>
>No, that's another thing.

Yes, they are different techniques but the principle is the same: you make more
in makemove() to make things faster in movegen(). I use rotated bitboards and I
do everything in movegen() - and this seems to be very fast method.

Severi



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