Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 20:56:34 06/19/02
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On June 19, 2002 at 20:27:57, Dan Andersson wrote:
>The move generation scheme seems to have been invented a lot of times. It would
>be interesting to know where exactly the 0x88 name originated. We used to call
>it 'Seven bit board' where we used it. That name came from our observation that
>a sixty-four square board is adressed by six bits (2x3 bits really) but the out
>of bounds checking was more efficient on 8x16 and 16x16 boards. Btw, I believe
>Tiger uses an Eight Bit Board.
>
>MvH Dan Andersson
8 bits? What do you mean?
Christophe
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