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Subject: Re: Are attack_to and attack from supposed to be incrementaly computed ?

Author: Reinhard Scharnagl

Date: 05:12:39 10/22/04

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On October 22, 2004 at 07:14:49, Thorsten Greiner wrote:

>...For non-sliding pieces, attack_to is constant. For sliding pieces, attack_to can
>be efficiently calculated using rotated bitboards. Actually, that is the whole
>point of rotated bitboards (at least most of it).

If that would be true, what time does an average request of being attacked cost?
I am (still) quite sufficient with my results, always computed on demand, and
not at all using bitboards.

Some actual testing results (P4, 2.8 GHz) at:
[http://www.chessbox.de/Down/CRC_Test_01.txt].

Regards, Reinhard.






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