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Subject: Re: Mixing 0x88 and bitboards

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 01:34:32 06/29/02

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On June 28, 2002 at 23:40:15, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>>I think I disagree again. These are all very simple and very fast in my
>>non-bitboard program as well. (2 compares + 1 branch for the first two,
>>3 compares for the second one) Of course, one needs to get into the
>>non-bitboard line of thinking first before being able to make it that
>>fast :)
>>
>
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>There is _no_ way to answer the "is it passed" in one operation without a
>bitboard.

You're starting to sound like Vincent: 'There is no way to do weighted
mobility with bitboards fast'.

>Unless you do some incremental computation in make/unmake to
>keep up with this instead.  Then it becomes an apples-to-oranges comparison
>since the incremental cost has to be included.

Nope. No incrementals.

I'm doing a lot of trickery in the pawn-hash.

--
GCP



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