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Subject: Is rotating bb's only useful for movegeneration?

Author: Bas Hamstra

Date: 08:29:56 12/06/99


Hi Bob and other bb experts,

What do you use the rotated bb's for, exactly: only for movegeneration, or also
for attack detection?

I ask this because I saw in Crafty some code to detect blocking of sliding
attacks, like I do it. Whith a BlockMask[File][Rank]. I thought the essence of
the rotated bb's is that you can avoid this block checking, so why this
block-code in Crafty?



Regards,
Bas Hamstra.
















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