Author: Zach Wegner
Date: 12:29:39 09/10/02
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On September 10, 2002 at 15:02:51, Jean Bouchat wrote: >Hello, >we are writing a new chess-engine (not ready for release: it can only move pawns >and knights) and I wonder how fast is your move generator functions. Let's take >for example the starting position. I called ours 1 million times on a PIII 733 >MHz. This includes the legality of the moves(no check), memory allocation for >the 20 new positions and freeing of this memory at each call. It takes 16 >seconds. >Is it fast? >Jean I couldn't give you the best answer, but in comparison to today's top programs (including amateur), this most likely isn't fast. I am a very unexperienced chess programmer. My program really sucks. It uses 0x88 move generation. Move Gen: 1000000 passes in 31065 ms, 32190.568164 GPS This is slower than your program, but it is from a test position and generates every move. Not to mention this was run on a Pentium II 366 mHz.
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