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Subject: Re: TSCP and hash and SEE

Author: Michel Langeveld

Date: 22:21:08 01/15/04

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On January 15, 2004 at 17:44:25, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On January 15, 2004 at 17:39:13, Michel Langeveld wrote:
>
>>On January 15, 2004 at 13:13:18, Dann Corbit wrote:
>>
>>>On January 14, 2004 at 23:22:46, Russell Reagan wrote:
>>>
>>>>On January 14, 2004 at 17:48:06, Dann Corbit wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>An aside:
>>>>>You can get a stupendous speed increase with TSCP by the addition of piece
>>>>>lists.
>>>>
>>>>I added a few bitboards to TSCP to act as piece lists once, and the speedup was
>>>>there, but not stupendous.  Something like 10-20% IIRC. Of course, that's not a
>>>>"real" piece list. You could use a real piece list to speed up the attack
>>>>detection, which is probably one of the most time consuming functions in TSCP.
>>>
>>>I bet you still iterated over the board.  The number 64 should almost never
>>>appear in the program.
>>>
>>>I got a 4-fold speedup, at least (hashing, piece lists, a few other trinkets).
>>
>>I added half of the hashing today. I have to to use the hashmove to sort it in
>>the movelist. The hashspeed up is already 50% now. Piecelists is on my todo
>>list. Won't rest until they are in.
>
>Don't forget to use the king positions for check test.  That's another big
>speedup.

Yes I have this, see:
http://www.talkchess.com/forums/1/message.html?342698



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