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Subject: Re: The need to unmake move

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 11:11:24 09/03/03

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On September 03, 2003 at 14:05:27, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>>In the example above, you'd still need to get the next move or put yourself
>>in the idle list, even though updating the score wouldn't be needed.
>
>Getting the next move doesn't count.  Given there are 35 moves in a normal
>position, even a 2 ply search beyond that move dwarfs the time needed to access
>a non-local memory area to get the next move.

I think this depends very much on how fast or slow non-local memory is.

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GCP



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