From: utzoo!watmath!padpowell Newsgroups: net.chess Title: legal move generator Article-I.D.: watmath.4591 Posted: Mon Feb 21 13:11:56 1983 Received: Tue Feb 22 00:59:50 1983 If anybody is interested, PAD Powell and Jon Schaeffer have just written a tech report on a VLSI legal move generator. This one chip wonder (it's a wonder it works) will generate pseudo legal moves for any board position in about 100 microseconds. This is a constant time, and can be overlapped with readout of the legal moves. Basically, it will eliminate most software overhead on legal move generation. For more on the design, see "VLSI Legal Move Generator" paper in the 1983 Caltech VLSI Conference Proceedings (to be published), or send a note to: Patrick Powell, CPH 3372 H, U. Waterloo, Waterloo, Ont. or ~e (blast inews!) Jonathan Schaeffer, Dept. Computer Science, U. Waterloo, Waterloo, Ont. ...decvax!watmath!{padpowell,jschaeffer} Patrick ("Next, we try checkers, then GO") Powell