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Subject: Re: quick bitboard question

Author: Dan Honeycutt

Date: 13:36:47 08/26/05

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On August 26, 2005 at 16:15:47, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On August 26, 2005 at 16:11:53, Dan Honeycutt wrote:
>
>>Run the lowest bits down the a or h file and you can do pawn captures without
>>having to mask those files.
>>
>>Best
>>Dan H.
>
>
>How would you avoid masking?  Otherwise the pawn at h2 would still wrap to a3 on
>a shift...

h8 = bit 0
h7 = bit 1
:
a1 = bit 63

If I ran that the right way, the out of bounds bits are lost and 0's are shifted
in on the other side.

Best
Dan H.




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