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Subject: Re: A one question historical quiz

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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