Author: Sune Fischer
Date: 05:13:36 05/30/04
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On May 30, 2004 at 06:35:11, Uri Blass wrote: >On May 30, 2004 at 06:05:08, Sune Fischer wrote: > >>On May 30, 2004 at 05:35:31, Uri Blass wrote: >> >>>>I am doing mobility, but what has that got to do with move generation? >>>> >>>>-S. >>> >>>I do mobility by counting number of legal moves. >> >>My mobility is not so simple, I do different things for the different pieces. >> >>>move_generation is clearly relevant. >> >>I don't see any reason to generate moves, I think that's not what you need in an >>eval. > >You do not need to remember the move but giving score for different moves can be >relevant. > > >> >>>I will probably replace it in the future by better mobility but I plan to >>>continue using similiar functions. >> >>This could be slowing you down quite a bit, should be worth experimenting to see >>if you can find something cheaper which is just as good or perhaps better. IMHO. > >cheaper is not so simple because it also means rewriting my qsearch(today movei >look for captures in the list of the legal moves so only changing the evaluation >will not to things faster). > >It needs the number of legal moves for evaluation so only changing the qsearch >will also not make it faster. > >I think to concentrate first on better and only later to think about cheaper. I don't think you can seperate it like that, a lot of things would obviously be better from an "every node must be evaluated as accurately as possible" viewpoint, e.g. probing TBs at the leaf. The real question is always if it is worth the cost. :) -S. >Uri
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