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Subject: Re: piece list possibilities

Author: Tom Kerrigan

Date: 09:40:15 07/08/98

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On July 08, 1998 at 03:51:14, Dan Newman wrote:

>I actually don't shorten the piece list in most of the other chess
>programs I've written--to do so only makes the program a little
>faster.  But I thought I'd do it on my latest, just to squeeze out
>that extra few percent.

Maybe...

I wouldn't be surprised if the difference is 10-30%, depending on the situation.
Almost every part of Stobor tests the captured flags of several pieces.
It seems like an annoying waste of compute power to me, and it certainly isn't
doing anything to make the code legible.

Cheers,
Tom



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