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Subject: Re: Attack Table Question

Author: Anthony Cozzie

Date: 16:30:35 03/22/04

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On March 22, 2004 at 17:18:49, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On March 22, 2004 at 16:18:19, Anthony Cozzie wrote:
>
>>On March 22, 2004 at 03:40:57, Daniel Shawul wrote:
>>
>>>Hello
>>>
>>>I have decided to use attack tables. I just did
>>>a rough implementation of it at the beginning of the eval
>>>according to Ed's paper. The problem is the thing dropped the nodecount
>>>by almost 40% .  Initial position nodecount was 800000 and now it is 500000.
>>>Do incremental move attack tables help? And how do i update the table? It seems
>>>very difficult to update a sliding move and other special cases.
>>>
>>>thanks
>>>daniel
>>
>>I have some code for incremental attack tables if you want it.  However, it took
>>Tord 4 months to figure out :)  I don't use attack tables in Zappa; i wrote this
>>when i was considering switching to a piecelist based engine.
>
>Is your code 0x88 or bitboard based?

board[64].  Its based on Vincent's move generator.

anthony



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