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Subject: Re: Notion: shrunken bitboards

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 07:06:45 04/28/01

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On April 27, 2001 at 21:46:26, Dann Corbit wrote:

>Since bishops can only touch 32 squares of a chess board, has anyone bothered to
>write a system using 32 bit bitboards for bishops?  About like a rotated
>bitboard, but shrunk by half.
>
>Also, knights can only cover a 5x5 area (with only 8 spots attacked or defended)
>and so it seems that knights might also use a compressed scheme (though not
>nearly so obvious as bishops).

What would be the advantage of that in evaluation Dan?

If i just consider a few squares for a bishop, how do i figure out
its influence upon king safety for example?

best regards,
Vincent



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