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Subject: Re: How much better is phased move generation/ordering?

Author: Stuart Cracraft

Date: 13:55:05 08/26/04

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On August 26, 2004 at 16:25:07, Lance Perkins wrote:

>After seeing the posted NextMove code, I wonder how much better this is than
>simply generating all the moves and then sorting them in one go.
>
>This code is a little to complex and tool long for my liking, but if it offers a
>very significant gain, maybe I should give it a second look.
>
>I can immagine that when one gets a cutoff, the rest of the moves don't have to
>be generated (captures vs non-captures). However, in leaf nodes, one is very
>likely to generated all the moves anyway.
>
>Has anyone compared these?

I would avoid this.

• Re: How much better is phased move generation/ordering? Lance Perkins 14:29:53 08/26/04
  • Re: How much better is phased move generation/ordering? Stuart Cracraft 14:32:09 08/26/04

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