Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto
Date: 12:14:26 11/19/02
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On November 19, 2002 at 15:12:15, Russell Reagan wrote: >On November 19, 2002 at 13:57:02, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: > >>Yet a crucial aspect of evaluating is scanning and that's something >>where bitboards are handicapped with 1 or 2 exceptions (you can >>quickly scan a rank or file for presence of a piece X). > >In an 0x88 engine, you have to do potentially 8 tests to scan for the presence >of a piece on a rank or file. No... And moreover, it always helps to give an example what you would want to evaluate, because there are always multiples ways to work around slower parts. -- GCP
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