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

Author: Rick Bischoff

Date: 21:59:51 08/30/04

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Hello,

I am very curious how you generate captures faster on an 0x88 than quiet moves?
Don't, by definition of 0x88, you have to traverse all of the quiet moves to get
the capture?  I am probably just naive :-)

On August 28, 2004 at 04:42:59, Volker Böhm wrote:

>Hi,
>
>spike has a "modified" 0x88 board representation. Spike generates moves in 3
>phases:
>
>1. Hash-Move
>2. Captures and Killers
>3. Silent Moves
>
>The silent move generator is called less than 10% compared to the
>captures/killers generator in normal search (not counted q-search).
>
>Even if the code seems to be nearly equal the captures-move generator is much
>faster than a combined move-generator.
>
>Greetings Volker



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