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Subject: Re: reuse Last Ply Moves In Move Gen ?

Author: Miguel A. Ballicora

Date: 07:57:40 04/12/02

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On April 12, 2002 at 09:30:45, Uri Blass wrote:

>On April 12, 2002 at 09:14:22, Oren Avraham wrote:
>
>>I've gone through the archive to look for a simple idea
>>but found non:
>>Why every ply should i generate the pseudomoves all over again, when i can
>>"recycle" the old ones in some way or another.
>
>You do not have to generate the pseudomoves all over again.
>I believe that programmers are usually not very good programmers
>so they choose to do it because recycling
>the old ones without bugs is too hard for them or takes
>too much time that they prefer to invest time in other things
>because they may get only a small speed improvement from
>recycling the old moves.

That is actually what a good programmer would do, not a bad one.

Regards,
Miguel


>
>>If it is done somewhere: how ? (what are the 'thumb rules' to update the old
>>moves...")
>>
>>10x (Thank Tou) in advance Oren. (p.s i'm an 18 years old IDIOT who makes a
>>chess program in PROLOG...)
>
>I do not think that you are an idiot.
>They are a lot of good ideas that are not used by the top
>chess programs.
>
>This is the main reason that I also chose to make
>a chess programs in C.
>
>My program also does not use today most of my ideas
>but the problem for me is not thinking about good ideas but
>explaining them to the computer.
>
>I believe that other programmers are better than me in this task
>but I do not want to discuss about my ideas because I do not
>like the idea that my program is going to lose
>a possible advantage relative to other programs.
>
>Uri



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