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Subject: Re: Mixing 0x88 and bitboards

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 02:09:12 06/26/02

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On June 26, 2002 at 04:45:55, Daniel Clausen wrote:

>On June 25, 2002 at 17:33:07, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:
>
>>On June 25, 2002 at 17:28:10, Russell Reagan wrote:
>>
>>>And as for the original testing if there is a pawn on E6, don't you keep a
>>>64-square array anyway along with your bitboards?
>>
>>IMHO That's not really bitboards any more.
>
>In this case people who use a bitboard for the pawns only are not really using
>0x88 anymore. :)

If they incur the overhead of having to update it on each make/unmake,
then yes, the program is more of a hybrid than anything else.

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GCP



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