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Subject: Re: Chess engine speed up tricks

Author: Pallav Nawani

Date: 09:44:10 02/15/05

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On February 15, 2005 at 12:32:37, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On February 15, 2005 at 12:26:36, Pallav Nawani wrote:
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>My chess engine, Natwarlal is very slow, getting 350KNPS on an Athlon 1700.
>>Crafty, on the other hand does an hefty 650K. What is the most important thing
>>for high NPS of the engine? There are a few speedup tricks that I know, and I am
>>not using them, but can anyone quantify the speedup in % provided by these,
>>and/or add some  new ideas?
>>
>>1. Pawn hash (Natwarlal uses it, but not efficiently).
>>2. King hash
>>3. Eval cache
>>4. Lazy eval. Natwarlal dosen't use this, but then Natwarlal's eval is very
>>skimpy already!
>>5. Any other trick?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Pallav
>
>Profile your program and find out where the time is going.
>
>The way to speed up your program is to identify the slow spots.

That's the problem.
I try to profile it with gprof and it hangs after 4 ply :(
That's an improvement from before, when it used to crash almost immediately :)





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