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* [http://www.open-chess.org/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=665 Copy Board vs Unmake Move] by ChrisJ, [[Computer Chess Forums|OpenChess Forum]], September 29, 2010  
 
* [http://www.open-chess.org/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=665 Copy Board vs Unmake Move] by ChrisJ, [[Computer Chess Forums|OpenChess Forum]], September 29, 2010  
 
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=39938 performance of copy-make] by [[Rein Halbersma]], [[CCC]], August 02, 2011
 
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=39938 performance of copy-make] by [[Rein Halbersma]], [[CCC]], August 02, 2011
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* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=42665 make and unmake stadistics] by [[Fermin Serrano]], [[CCC]], February 28, 2012 » [[Search Statistics]]
 
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=47882 How costly is taking moves back ?] by [[Piotr Lopusiewicz]], [[CCC]], April 30, 2013
 
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=47882 How costly is taking moves back ?] by [[Piotr Lopusiewicz]], [[CCC]], April 30, 2013
 
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=50805 copy/make vs make/unmake] by [[Robert Hyatt]], [[CCC]], January 07, 2014
 
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=50805 copy/make vs make/unmake] by [[Robert Hyatt]], [[CCC]], January 07, 2014

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Home * Chess * Moves * Unmake Move

Unmake Move is a function inside a chess program to update the internal chess position and its Board representation as well as associated or dependent state variables and data by a move unmade on the internal board. In unmake move, reversible aspects of a position can be incrementally updated by the inverse or own inverse operation of Make Move. Irreversible aspects of a position, such as ep state, castling rights and the halfmove clock are either restored from a stack (LIFO), or simply kept in arrays indexed by current search or game ply. Alternatively, one may capacitate the move with all the necessary information to recover those irreversible aspects of a position as well.

Negamax

This is how make and Unmake Move are applied inside a recursive search routine, for simplicity Negamax:

int negaMax( int depth ) {
    if ( depth == 0 ) return evaluate();
    int max = -oo;
    generateMoves(...);
    while ( m = getNextMove(...) )  {
        makeMove(m); 
        score = -negaMax( depth - 1 );
        unmakeMove(m); 
        if( score > max )
            max = score;
    }
    return max;
}

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