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Subject: Re: questions about dynamically updating attackboards

Author: Sune Fischer

Date: 14:50:15 08/23/03

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On August 23, 2003 at 17:47:24, Uri Blass wrote:

>On August 23, 2003 at 17:19:20, Sune Fischer wrote:
>
>>On August 23, 2003 at 16:24:28, Andrew Williams wrote:
>>
>>I know this scheme very well, perhaps we should compare nps ;)
>>
>>Do you also xor out the changes?
>>
>>One problem I see with this, is that 32 bits is too big to make use of SEE by
>>table lookups.
>
>I do not understand what table lookup you think about.
>Suppose that you could use table of 2^32 entries.
>
>How can it help you when you cannot know based only on the 32 bit number if the
>piece is attacked by a pawn or by a rook.
>There are no special bits for pawns and speical bits for knights.
>
>If you save in the bits the piecetype of the attackers and the number of the
>attackers of every type then you can do it but this is not 1 bit per piece.
>
>Uri

That's true, so there is another reason it doesn't work :)

-S.



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