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Subject: Re: time of move generation

Author: Will Singleton

Date: 16:43:07 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

What no one has actually come out and said, is, that no, it's not fast.  It's
pretty slow.  But you specifically mentioned mem allocation, which implies you
knew that perhaps this was a problem.

Will



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