Author: Steven Edwards
Date: 20:46:56 10/28/03
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On October 28, 2003 at 23:37:28, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>On October 28, 2003 at 21:10:37, Steven Edwards wrote:
>
>>Here's a one question historical quiz that will test your knowledge of our
>>little corner of the programming world:
>>
>>Who was/were the first programmer(s) to use bitboards for piece
>>location/property representation?
>without reading, I believe was both Slate/Atkin in chess 4.0 in 1974, and
>the russian group working on Kaissa, with Donskoy as the main programmer.
Of course, both the NWU Chess and the Kaissa programs used bitboards, and in
apparantly an identical manner. Possibly Kaissa also used them in its causality
facility ("method of analogies").
>They apparently discovered this idea independently, at about the same time,
>and both showed up with bitboard programs at the same time...
True. But neither is the answer to the question! I know you know the answer,
so please give it another try.
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