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Subject: Re: piece mobility?

Author: Andreas Herrmann

Date: 05:39:24 01/08/04

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On January 08, 2004 at 08:28:25, Daniel Shawul wrote:

>Hi
>
>I don't do piece mobility eval in my chess
>engine.Have heard Ruffian 2 uses intensive piece mobility eval and
>I would like to do it in my engine.At the moment,mobility is done only for
>bishops in my engine.
>I count the possible moves(costy for me,i use bitboards) and assign some value
>accordingly.
>I don't do it for other pieces because haven't seen/understood its importance
>yet.A web page on mobility eval is appreciated.
>
>regards
>daniel

in my engine, mobility is one of the most powerful parts in the eval. I
calculate it from my attack tables. Calculating attack tables is very slow, but
you can use them for a lot other things.
Andreas



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