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Subject: Re: Mixing 0x88 and bitboards

Author: Daniel Clausen

Date: 02:12:20 06/26/02

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On June 26, 2002 at 05:09:12, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:

>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.

So that's not the 'common' way for 0x88'ers to do it? Please forgive my
ignorance. :)

Sargon



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