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Subject: Re: move ordering question

Author: John Coffey

Date: 17:40:48 03/01/00

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On March 01, 2000 at 17:03:44, William Bryant wrote:


>Break down your move generator into two functions, one that generates captures
>and promotions, and one that generates only non-captures.  Hopefully, one
>of the captures will generate a cutoff and the non-captures will not have
>to be generated at all.
>

It is hard for me to imagine how this can be done at all?  Seems like generating
the captures would also require you to generate the non-captures.

I assume that the only way this can be done is with bitboards?

John



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