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Subject: Re: About chess programming

Author: Tom Kerrigan

Date: 20:27:25 12/22/99

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On December 22, 1999 at 21:54:16, Will Singleton wrote:
>And a Merry Christmas to you, bud.  I, however, don't think movegen is much of a
>factor in overall speed (200% really? Am I wrong?)  I scan the board.  And, I
>carry the king squares around in vars.

Perhaps not move generation, but there are a lot of places in a chess program
where you want to do something with each piece. Seeing if a particular square is
attacked (unless you use bitboards), the evaluation function, etc.

-Tom



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