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Subject: Re: Move Generation

Author: Scott Gasch

Date: 17:35:28 02/22/05

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One thing that helped (and helps) me a lot is a chess tree viewer.  I started by
just dumping XML code out of search and using a web browser to view it as a
tree.  Both IE and mozilla do a reasonable job allowing you to expand/contract
branches etc...

Then I got tired of this solution and hacked something together to give me a
tree control and call winboard to show me the FEN when I clicked on it.  I use
this all the time when I'm thinking about pruning etc...

The reason for this tip is that I strongly suspect your problem is in search and
not move gen.  Even if you wrote a terribly slow move generator you should not
be taking 3 seconds to get a 4 ply search.  I bet you're searching a ton of
nodes and need to look at your move ordering / search tree.

Scott



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