Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 13:53:08 06/15/00
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On June 15, 2000 at 13:15:48, Flemming Rodler wrote:
>On June 15, 2000 at 06:26:03, Christophe Theron wrote:
>
>>On June 15, 2000 at 06:07:00, Amir Ban wrote:
>>
>>>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
>>
>>
>>Yes, I have put my hands on the source code of this program when I got the
>>Borland C++ 3.1 compiler. It was included as an example for the Object Vision
>>library. It was a very straight translation of the Pascal code to C.
>>
>>Last year IIRC I have finally found who was the author of this program (somebody
>>here told me), and I have been in contact with him a couple of times by email.
>>The author is Kaare Danielsen, and his program was really smart. It took me some
>>time to understand how it worked, and when I think that it has been written back
>>in 1985, and can only tell my admiration for this guy.
>
>There is a little bit of info about this program (when and why he wrote it on
>his webside
>
>http://www.danielsen.com/resume.shtml
>
>/Flemming
Thanks for the link. The name of this guy never appears in computer chess
stories, but it's just unfair.
Christophe
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