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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