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Subject: Re: Natural move generation with bitboards (was Re:significant math)

Author: Alessandro Damiani

Date: 16:44:52 11/22/02

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On November 22, 2002 at 19:08:27, Steffan Westcott wrote:

>On November 22, 2002 at 12:52:54, Alessandro Damiani wrote:
>
>>Steffan? You wrote someting you name SME? Does it include a SEE?
>
>Yes, SME (Static Move Evaluation) is a generalisation of SEE where the first
>move in the 'exchange search tree' is not necessarily a capture. The exchange
>logic does have some gross simplifications (to constrain the large number of
>possible exchange patterns) but the results work reasonably well.
>
>SME is there when the other heuristics have dried up, so its not used
>everywhere. Its designed to discourage 'obvious' daft moves like moving a piece
>to a square attacked by an unpinned enemy pawn, or moving pieces away from a
>co-ordinated attack, etc, and encourage 'obvious' sensible moves like developing
>a piece, defending own king under attack, etc. SME is heavy, but its only there
>to generate the first few 'plausible' moves, its not used throughout the entire
>movelist, its not used on every search node, and much of its calculation (which
>is a subset of a full position evaluation) is performed at most once per search
>node, with much lighter processing per subsequent move suggestion.
>
>Forgive me if I don't entertain any more questions on SME, I've probably said
>enough for now and I have to have some secrets!
>

No problem, I wasn't asking about SME to use it myself. I was wondering if it is
of the complexity of a SEE and if your move generation idea allowed a more
efficient static evaluation like SEE.

I use my own method anyway, which is simpler than a SEE but with enough
accuracy.

When do you think you will have your engine ready for playing? I still need some
weeks to finish rewriting my engine.

Alessandro



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