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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