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Subject: Re: Move table

Author: KarinsDad

Date: 06:39:16 01/12/99

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On January 12, 1999 at 04:16:39, Bruce Moreland wrote:

>
>On January 12, 1999 at 00:11:02, KarinsDad wrote:
>
>>On January 11, 1999 at 23:01:45, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>
>>>On January 11, 1999 at 17:44:02, Bruce Moreland wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>
>>[znip]
>>
>>>>
>>>>If I were writing a program today I think I would try this first.
>>>
>>
>>Now you guys tell me. After I started using BitBoards for both my evaluator and
>>for my legal move generator.
>
>I don't use either of these methods, I use a legal move table as in gnu-chess,
>although my element size is pretty big, since I store a lot of other gunk in
>there.
>
>For example, one component of my eval is piece-square tables.  If you want to
>incrementally keep track of the positional value, you'd normally subtract out
>the value of the "from" square and add in the value of the "to" square, for a
>given piece and color.  I have the value right there in the table, so I can just
>add it in without calculating indexes.

Now do you do this recursively on the stack or do you carry the piece-square
table around on your hash table?

>
>There are drawbacks, no doubt, but it works OK, meaning that I think that people
>have written slower programs while using faster generation schemes.
>
>bruce



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