Author: martin fierz
Date: 06:58:15 11/27/03
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On November 27, 2003 at 09:24:52, Steve Maughan wrote: >Martin, > >>am i missing something here, or is this just another inaccuracy that such a >>table-based SEE > >It's an inaccuracy of the system. I think the reason that Ed is using this >system is that he's generating the attack info as part of the evaluation which >is carried out at every interior node - hence the exchange evaluation is "free". > >>(like not resolving xray attacks)? > >Ed does account for some xray attacks by incrementing the number of attacker >without changing the piece mask e.g. if a bishop attacks a square though a queen >the attacker count will be 2 but the only piece mask that is set will be the >queen mask. > >Hope this helps, > >Steve hi steve, thanks for the explanation. i asked because i also generate all attacks at every node, and since this is very expensive (at least the crappy way i programmed it...) i would like to do something useful with the information :-) of course i'm already using the attacks for something, else i wouldn't be doing it at all, but i need to use it for more, the way it slows me down! i also have to figure out how to produce x-ray attacks properly, i don't do that yet. BTW, how is monarch doing? your webpage says you are rewriting it in C, but it's been saying that for a long time?! cheers martin
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