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Subject: Re: Attack Tables

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 10:25:08 06/25/01

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On June 25, 2001 at 12:56:26, Artem Pyatakov wrote:

>I have decided to keep track of attack tables in my program, because I think
>they will save computation time in the eval.
>
>My question now is this, given the experience of most people in this group, what
>is the most useful info to keep in the attack table?
>
>Should I just keep the number of times that white is attacking the square and
>black is attacking the square? Or is it very useful to keep track of what actual
>pieces (and on what position on board) are attacking the square on both sides?
>
>Or is it some other kind of attack info?
>
>Thanks for all of your responses.


If you are going to do this, the "counts" are pretty useless.  You need to
know which pieces are attacking a square.  IE if I have two pawns attacking
the square and you have a rook and queen attacking the square _I_ control it.



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