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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