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Subject: Re: Question for Bob Hyatt about BitBoards

Author: Bas Hamstra

Date: 18:34:04 07/02/00

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On July 02, 2000 at 18:07:25, Larry Griffiths wrote:

>On July 02, 2000 at 16:05:48, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>On July 02, 2000 at 13:24:35, Larry Griffiths wrote:
>>
>>>Bob,
>>>
>>>Are the RL90, RR45, and RL45 bitboards only maintained for occupied squares?
>>>
>>>Larry.
>>
>>
>>Yes...  they are only used to determine the 'state' of a rank/file/diagonal,
>>they aren't needed for anything else???
>
>That is what I thought...
>
>Then I will have a bitboard for each type of piece...
>6 bitboards for black pieces pawn,knight,bishop,rook,queen,king...
>6 bitboards for white pieces pawn,knight,bishop,rook,queen,king...
>4 bitboards for occupied squares...
>1 bitboard  for all black piece types...
>1 bitboard  for all white piece types...
>
>and a move of a black pawn would update the
>   black pawn bitboard
>   all 4 occupied square bitboards (rank,file,Leftdiag,RightDiag)
>   the all black piece types bitboard...

Yes, that's how to do it.



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