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Subject: Re: TSCP enhancements [Re: Short chess programs]

Author: Daniel Clausen

Date: 07:20:42 09/20/02

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On September 20, 2002 at 10:05:58, Ian Osgood wrote:

>Index the history table by moving piece and color ( 12 ) and destination ( 64 )
>of the move, instead of the source and destination of the move.  This decreases
>the size from 4K to <1K entries, which is easier on the cache.  Surprisingly,
>this has little effect on move ordering performance.  In fact, it improved the
>node count of my program (better move ordering).
>
>Ian

Ah, an interesting idea. I don't think the 4K->1K decrease helps in my case
though, since I have soo many precalculated arrays already. (using rotated
bitboards) But I will try it in my engine, as soon as I have some time. Thanks!
:)

Sargon



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