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

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 08:08:10 04/12/02

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On April 12, 2002 at 10:57:40, Miguel A. Ballicora wrote:

>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

No

If you can implement idea that gives you 5% speed improvement
in 24 hours without bugs then I see no reason not to do it.

The problem is that I believe that most if not all
the programmers simply canoot do it because they
are not good enough.

Uri



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