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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