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Subject: Re: Evaluation in Rebel

Author: Tony Werten

Date: 02:20:33 01/08/03

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On January 08, 2003 at 05:12:07, Ed Schröder wrote:

>On January 08, 2003 at 03:53:24, Tony Werten wrote:
>
>>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.
>
>You got it. I do hope you understand the downside too? It's a total rewrite of
>your program :)

No it isn't :) It's a speedup.

But I'm really not looking forward to figuring out the way to fill the status
table :( So if you could publish that one first ;) ( Or send it by email )

Tony

>
>Ed
>
>
>
>>Tony
>>
>>>
>>>Thanks,
>>>
>>>Steve



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