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Subject: Re: planning a SSE-optimized chess engine

Author: gerold daniels

Date: 20:46:24 01/12/05

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On January 12, 2005 at 23:31:34, Aart J.C. Bik wrote:

>Hi Folks,
>This is my first post to this forum. I work in the Intel Compiler Lab on
>automatic vectorization for multimedia extensions (see
>http://www.intelcompiler.com for some details), but in my free time I have
>started working on a chess engine that will be optimized for the
>Streaming-SIMD-extensions (SSE/SSE2/SSE3). Currently I am making my first steps
>on getting my own Universal Chess Interface implementation to work with my
>favorite chess environment: the Fritz interface. I noticed that some things
>seeem to work a little different in Fritz than in the formal description (is
>this a known deviation?), but I am pretty confident I will figure it out.
>Are there other ongoing research projects that try to exploit the
>Streaming-SIMD-extensions? If so, I would like to hear about this. Also,
>although initially I want to focus on the engine, eventually I may also want to
>implement my own book and access to Nalimov tablebases during the search. Stefan
>Meyer-Kahlen kindly pointed me to the Crafty download to figure out how the
>tablebases can be accessed. Will incorporating some Crafty source into my own
>engine have any impact on licensing?
>Nice "meeting you folks" and looking forward to some nice discussions!
>Aart Bik
>http://www.aartbik.com

good evening Aart talk to prof.hyatt about the crafty source.
gerold.



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