Author: John Coffey
Date: 15:47:12 06/21/00
In follow up to Why Bitboards at all? If bitboards can be used to generate captures, then I assume that these are searched first to improve move ordering. Is there any effort to determine which capture should be looked at first and do bitboards provide other ways to improve move ordering? John Coffey Being a novice to bitboards I am trying to figure out how to generate a capture. If I take a square and then I say take the mask for the moves of a bishop for that square, then I have a mask that covers 14 squares. If I & it with a mask for my opponent's pieces I have a mask of potential captures assuming that no pieces were in the way. So first I would have to come up with a mask for legal moves for the bishop before determining the captures? This I am not sure how to do, but I am going to try to read up on bitboards.
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