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Subject: Re: legal move generator that is 20 times faster than Crafty

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 13:59:17 07/03/01

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On July 02, 2001 at 18:58:07, Carlos del Cacho wrote:
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>Anyway there are dubious claims in that document, I don't see how you can make a
>move generator 30 times faster than crafty's, so I doubt if he ever got to
>implement it, and if he did what was the HW difference he used to measure it.
>This person sounds like a day dreamer to me.

I suspect his evaluation will do nothing at all besides material.
At any rate his move gerator target is 10M NPS.
Crafty's move generator is 2M NPS.  That's only 5 times faster.
And he plans to use DDR memory, which is twice as fast.  That means 3x faster
should do it.

I would not be surprised if it was capable of that.  Doesn't mean it will play
good chess though.

A good move generator is a necessary condition for a world-beater program.  But
it's nowhere near sufficient.

Just like tactics.  If your program is not good tactically, it won't play very
well.  But it can be a tactical monster and still get shredded by shredder.

Cowabunga, shred-head.

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