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Subject: Re: Evaluation in Rebel

Author: Tony Werten

Date: 00:53:24 01/08/03

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On January 08, 2003 at 03:28:26, Steve Maughan wrote:

>Ed,
>
>The 'penny drops'!  Seriously good trick!
>
>So I can see that this is potentially a replacement for SEE (and more).  Have
>you any idea if it is faster than SEE - what percentage of CPU time is taken up
>with this type of board scanning?  My gut feel is that it'll probably be a
>little slower but contain more knowledge

Depends I think. If you want to use it only for ordering captures, there is not
a lot of difference.
If you want to use it in eval to loop over the board and see who is controling
each square, it's a winner. Also for finding who's controling the squares around
the king it's very nice.

Tony

>
>Thanks,
>
>Steve



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