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Subject: Re: About chess programming

Author: Bruce Moreland

Date: 21:55:15 12/22/99

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On December 22, 1999 at 18:12:43, hgkjhg wrote:

>Hi,
>I started writing a program.  It was a running bug-free program.  But I want to
>mainly change its eval.c function.  The program initially doesn't have a lot of
>knowledge, but its speed is about 2.5 times slower than crafty's on a Pentium
>100.  The program uses regular 12x12 offsets for board representation, and it
>seems to be easy to add knowledge, but would the program be like 300% faster
>using bitboards?

Bitboards are not magic.  They are just another way of doing move generation.
Depending upon what the program is trying to do, you can have a move generator
that's twice as fast and only speeds the program up a few percent.

bruce




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