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Subject: Re: question about generating incremental move generator

Author: Alessandro Damiani

Date: 12:48:15 10/24/02

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>First of all: did you consider to determine your mobility by attack detection
>without counting moves? I ask you this because the biggest cost in searching and
>evaluating is at the horizon and below. So, generating all moves there just to
>count legal moves is not optimal in my eyes. Additionally you only need a subset
>of all moves there. So, your mobility costs a lot: you could evaluate other
>aspects of a position more accurately instead.
>

What about this: you keep your exact counting of legal moves at inner nodes
(depth>=1), but at the horizon and below you approximate using attack detection.
This way you keep the accuracy you like where it does not have a big impact on
the total cost.

Alessandro



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