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Subject: Re: Mobility Tables - what are they?

Author: rasjid chan

Date: 17:16:20 04/30/04

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On April 30, 2004 at 19:27:56, Steve Maughan wrote:

>Russell,
>
>>With rotated bitboards you can get mobility information from a lookup table
>>(the same way you get attacks from a lookup table).
>
>Thats a good point.  But AFAIK Ruffian and Patriot are not rotated bitboard
>engines.  So the puzzle continues...
>
>Steve

I don't know rotated bitboards so I cannot tell exactly what Russell meant.
I could read "score" from my attack tables, not just any "information"
,fairly complete information relevant to attacks.

I can do the following:-

int precalculated_queen_partial_mobility_wrt_knight[64=q][64=kn];

I have "precalculated"+ "mobility" that helps in my eval_mobility() call
and so it pass; I did not say in my advertisement flyer
...complete breakthrough in chess evaluation that do away with the
traditional way chess programs need to compute mobility,completely
replaced with precalculated table lookup...

Common sense sometimes is trustwothy but I'll still leave an inch just
in case some idiot-savant really have a break-through beyond our
mortal minds. But I'll still rather bet the chance is greater that within
the next 100 years commercial fusion replaces petroleum as the main
source of energy.

Rasjid



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