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Subject: Re: Why did FrcBaron_102 resigned so early against Fritz 8.0.0.8

Author: Richard Pijl

Date: 04:08:00 07/19/03

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On July 19, 2003 at 06:00:06, Sune Fischer wrote:

>On July 19, 2003 at 05:01:01, Richard Pijl wrote:
>
>>If you want to play a match between the Baron and a regular chess engine with
>>the 16 selected positions that will not change the castling rules, I suggest you
>>to use the standard Baron version (which is 2-3% faster as well). You should
>>only use the FRC version of the Baron when playing a 'real' FRC game where the
>>GUI is prepared to accept the FRC castling notation of Winboard.
>>
>>bye,
>>Richard.
>
>Hi Richard
>
>Why does FRC slow you down 2-3%?

Well: First, generating and (un)doing castling moves is less efficient in the
FRC version. I haven't tried to optimize this either.
Second there are a few more 'fun' options in the FRC version and a few more
checks are required there.

>
>I know it's going to be a little slower, because it doesn't seem possible to
>unroll the loops when generating castle moves, but 2-3% is a lot IMO, castle
>moves shouldn't be that frequent.
>
>Is it an evaluation issue perhaps?

No, no special evaluation for the FRC Version (yet).

Richard.




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