Author: Steven Edwards
Date: 00:00:59 10/29/03
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On October 29, 2003 at 02:39:05, Will Singleton wrote: >On October 28, 2003 at 21:10:37, Steven Edwards wrote: >>Who was/were the first programmer(s) to use bitboards for piece >>location/property representation? >Not having access to "Russian Math", one cannot tell to what extent their theory >was put into practice. Otherwise, it was Slate/Atkin and Berliner. Slate and Atkin were not the first, although they were the first to combine a bitboard representation with a full width iterative search. Berliner's PhD thesis on CAPS is a good read and includes a lot of bit level detail, but he wasn't the first either.
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