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Subject: Re: Bitboard question

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 20:13:31 05/25/02

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On May 25, 2002 at 11:52:37, Daniel Clausen wrote:

>On May 25, 2002 at 10:23:10, Uri Blass wrote:
>>What is the meaning of a bitboard program.
>>
>>How can you say if a program is a bitboard-based program that uses non bitboard
>>or a non bitboard program that uses bitboards.
>>
>>Uri
>
>Well, I don't have a definition which covers all possible cases. But in most
>cases it's probably trivial to decide.. an engine whose primary variables of the
>position structure are bitboards, is bitboard-based. Otherwise not. E.g. Crafty
>is a bitboard program, Diep most likely is not. =)

Right now, I am fooling around with a hybrid idea.  I have a common format I can
store the positions in, which is easily converted to either bitboard or 0x88.
The notion is that sometimes bitboards are better and sometimes not.  So switch
on the fly -- even in the middle of the search.

It [cough] hasn't panned out yet.



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