Author: Daniel Clausen
Date: 06:20:03 06/26/02
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On June 26, 2002 at 09:14:19, Russell Reagan wrote: >On June 26, 2002 at 04:50:00, Daniel Clausen wrote: > >>I don't follow your logic. Whether your move format includes the captured piece >>type or not, how does that help you to find out what piece sits on E6? > >I think he means that he uses the 64-word array so that he can convert a move to >a string. For example, if he had a move from g1 to f3 of the knight, how is he >going to convert that to "Nf3"? He would either have to search through all of >his bitboards to see which piece was being moved, or he could just use an array. >That is how I understand it, but I could be missing his point also. > >Russell But converting a move to a string is not time-critical at all, since it's only used to print out the PV and stuff like that. I can't imagine that Bob updates a 64-word array during the search to print out the PV at the end in a microsecond faster. :) Sargon
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