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Subject: Re: 0x88 board representation

Author: Amir Ban

Date: 03:07:00 06/15/00

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On June 14, 2000 at 21:26:30, Bruce Moreland wrote:

>On June 14, 2000 at 16:21:40, James Robertson wrote:
>
>>Could someone please point me to a place where I can read about this board
>>representation and how to use it? If someone is willing to post a description of
>>it here, that would be cool too.
>>
>>James
>
>Here is yet another try:
>
>0x88 board representation and move generation
>
>It's called something else, but I don't know what it is called.  I heard about
>it from David Kittinger at the Hong Kong WCCC in 1995, and it's been spreading.
>David told me that it was a common technique before that point, but I haven't
>seen it described in literature.
>

It's much older than that. In the mid-80's Turbo Pascal included a complete
chess program in source-code, and it used the 0x88 method. I've been using it
for ages.

Amir






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