Author: Bas Hamstra
Date: 07:21:08 12/10/01
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On December 10, 2001 at 10:16:25, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >On December 10, 2001 at 08:05:42, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: > >>On December 10, 2001 at 06:02:46, Bas Hamstra wrote: >> >>>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. >> >>No it doesn't. > >Correction, i got email from Frans his official statement nowadays >is that he IS using bitboards. Not only that, but he even claims BB datastructure is not slower. Quite something from mr. efficiency, eh? Bas.
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