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move generator experiments on gpu

gpu chess move generation / perft experiments

  • Move generation uses bitboards -- position represented using a set of 6 bitboards -- two variations for sliding piece move generation: kogge-stone and magics --- three variations of magics: plain, fixed shift fancy, and byte-lookup fancy --- table sizes: 2.3 MB, 760KB, 150KB respectively. -- kogge stone faster in some cases and fixed shift fancy faster in some

  • perft routine can work with or without transposition table support

  • peak speeds on overclocked GTX 780:

-- without transposition tables: --- 27 Billion moves per second (pos2 of cpw) --- 16 Billion moves per second (starting pos) --- 1.5 hours for perft(10) of start position

-- with transposition tables: --- start position perft(11) in 1 hour!