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Subject: Re: Fastest way to generate all/captures moves and incheck detection?

Author: Alessandro Damiani

Date: 07:58:08 09/15/99

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On September 15, 1999 at 08:27:11, Bas Hamstra wrote:

>On September 15, 1999 at 07:49:45, Alessandro Damiani wrote:
>
>>On September 15, 1999 at 05:36:27, Bas Hamstra wrote:
>>
>>>On September 15, 1999 at 03:59:18, stefan wrote:
>>>
>>>>What is the mystery of fast programs like Fritz?
>>>
>>>My guess: it generates captures 1 by 1 (so not de whole batch) and does very
>>>limited sorting. Very carefully optimized assemblercode. Waste no ticks. Hardly
>>>any endnode eval (only pawns/kingsafety).
>>>
>>>I hear Junior is even faster than Fritz, nowadays, nps wise.
>>>
>>>Does Fritz throw out SEE wise losing captures? I don't know. Probably not. If
>>>so, and you would factor in the nodes it does not SEE prune it's NPS would be
>>>lower. But still pretty good.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>Regards,
>>>Bas Hamstra.
>>
>>If you generate captures one by one then you are not able to sort them by a SEE.
>
>Correct. But that's not what I said :)
>
>You can generate captures one by one, NOT sort SEE, but still throw out SEE wise
>losers.
>
>(BTW you can do SEE faster than normal if its only for pruning losers)
>
>
>Regards,
>Bas Hamstra.
>

It was only a statement.

Alessandro



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