Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 06:26:45 10/17/00
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On October 16, 2000 at 15:51:30, Carlos del Cacho wrote: >Okay, I've coded only one chess program for the time being and it's bitboard >based (with little programming experience). Personally I don't think it is that >hard to get it going and you won't get more trouble to debug it than with other >move generation systems. But besides speed bitboards are great because you can >do a lot of things with a simple popcnt function and bitwise operators. You get >clearer code, in my opinion. > >Greets, >Carlos del Cacho > >Pepito's Homepage: www.crosswinds.net/~pepitochess you have a cool example in crafty. basically crafty is written in a brilliant way: all kind of assembly functions and other functions are called using functions instead of direct inline hacking. Without the clear example i'm sure it would get complete chaos. GNUchess 4.0 and before is an example of a cool example of how ideas should work, but it's about the worst example of how one should program.
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