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Subject: Re: Bitboard question

Author: Bas Hamstra

Date: 03:02:46 12/10/01

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On December 10, 2001 at 04:13:05, Andrew Dados wrote:

>On December 10, 2001 at 03:40:53, Russell Reagan wrote:
>
>>At http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/~cmf/chess/theory.html it says:
>>
>>"Most top chess programs these days use bitboards."
>>
>>Is this true?
>
>No. The opposite is true.
>
>non bitboard programs:
>commercial: tiger, fritz, junior, diep, rebel, genius, nimzo
>amateur: most
>ferret non-bitboard, too.
>
>bitboard programs: afik none commercial. crafty, insomniac and few more.
>
>then to some extend all programs may use bitboards especially to carry around
>pawn structure info.
>
>-Andrew-

Correction: Fritz uses bitboards. Non rotated.

Bas.









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