Author: Sean Mintz
Date: 19:16:54 01/21/02
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>but theres some even neater tricks you can use (which work for other board
>representations too ...)
>
>go through the faile/sjeng source for the code. basically you have 2 special
>arrays and one variable: pieces[32] and squares[128 (or however many squares in
>your board)] and num_pieces. if filled correctly you'll only have to loop
>num_pieces times. whenever a capture occurs (if you update these) you'll loop
>less and less which should help speedup even more!
heres how i loop now:
int i,
j;
for (i=1; i<=board->num_pieces; i++) {
j = board->pieces[i];
if ((j == -1) || (board->color[j] != board->wtm)) {
continue;
}
/* ... do whatever you want here */
}
as you can see, my loop is only as long as num_pieces. so if theres 5 pieces
left you can imagine how fast it is :)
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