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Subject: Re: Move Generation

Author: Mathieu Pagé

Date: 08:33:54 02/23/05

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On February 22, 2005 at 20:35:28, Scott Gasch wrote:

>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

I scott, I thought of doign this.

Can you post a sample xml file so I can see how you do it ?

Mahtieu P.



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