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Subject: Re: To bitboard or not to bitboard?

Author: Steffan Westcott

Date: 04:53:19 08/31/03

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On August 31, 2003 at 06:32:23, Tord Romstad wrote:

>I don't see any discussion of diagonal attacks here.  How are they handled?

You may be interested in some posts I made in this forum a while ago on bitboard
algorithms, flood fillers and bitboard oriented design. Use the search engine
and use "Steffan" in the author field.

In particular, this article has the Kogge-Stone filling implementations for all
8 ray directions :
http://www.chess-archive.com/ccc.php?art_id=261956

If you are feeling brave, take a look at this article, which is my attempt at
explaining the inspiration for this particular method :
http://www.chess-archive.com/ccc.php?art_id=252289
(NB : View the message in a fixed with font to make sense of the diagrams)

Steffan



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