Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 06:40:47 06/04/02
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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? Or would more costly things such as the evaluation >function make the gain in speed less than 2x? > >Russell Done reasonably well, these special cases really don't slow an engine down very much at all...
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