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Subject: Re: beating TSCP too! interesting game. (What's an attackboard?)

Author: David Rasmussen

Date: 03:37:54 01/09/01

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On January 09, 2001 at 03:25:49, Severi Salminen wrote:

>>It is a way to get all the squares to which a piece can move by a pseudolegal
>>move. In a bitboard based program, it would just be a bitboard of all the places
>>a piece on a given square can go to, given the configuration of pieces on the
>>board, if we disregard placing the king in check. Of course this wont account
>>for pinned pieces, overworked pieces, trapped pieces etc. But it will give you a
>>good idea of the mobility of a piece. Similar ideas can be made with
>>non-bitboard implementations.
>
>Ok, thanks! Now I now I'm using attackboards...
>
>Severi

If you are using it, mobility won't be expensive.



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