Author: Pham Minh Tri
Date: 18:43:43 04/22/02
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On April 22, 2002 at 05:51:23, Uri Blass wrote: >On April 22, 2002 at 03:08:28, maria clara benedicto wrote: > >>gosh! >> >>gnu chess nnot weak program > > >Gnu chess is a weak program like most of the chess programs. > >Programs that are not clearly stronger than gnuchess may earn more rating from >better search techniques or better evaluation and they do not need to care about >the optimizations that were discussed. > >The only optimization that may be important is optimization of the algorithm. > >I started with a move generator of legal moves. Uri, your way to start seems not be good for beginners to follow :) You wasted too much time for the third or fourth important functions. > >The first version was very slow because I generated attack tables for all the >board without memory of the previous tables. > >Only after working about it and making it about 100 times faster I started to >work on a chess program. > >I believe that it is still possible to improve the speed of my move generator >but today I do not care about a possible factor of 2(it is only a guess and I do >not know the right factor that can be achieved by assembler tricks+improving the >algorithm) and there are more important things to do. > >I have a lot to improve before thinking of optimization of global variable or >assembler. > >Uri
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