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Subject: Re: How much faster would a chess engine be if...

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 23:23:36 06/03/02

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On June 04, 2002 at 01:55:45, Russell Reagan wrote:

>How much faster would a chess engine be if it didn't have to deal with the
>special cases such as en passant, castling, promotion, etc.? In other words,
>only having to deal with moving one piece from one square to another.
>
>Would it be twice as fast?

It would generate wrong answers at least twice as fact as a correct program.
;-)

>Or would more costly things such as the evaluation
>function make the gain in speed less than 2x?
>
>Russell



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