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Subject: Re: piece mobility?

Author: Bob Durrett

Date: 07:11:38 01/08/04

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On January 08, 2004 at 08:49:27, Russell Reagan wrote:

>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
>
>If you use rotated bitboards you can compute mobility for the same cost as
>producing the bishop attack bitboards. Instead of your lookup table returning an
>attack bitboard, have it return the number of attacks. I remember seeing
>something like this in Crafty, so take a look there.

Saw it in Crafty????  There are no new ideas in chess engine design!!!  : )

Hyatt must have had a revelation from Heaven when he wrote his chess engine.
Humans just don't have what it takes to come up with new ideas, it seems.

: )

Bob D.



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