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Subject: Re: It seems to me more logical instead of firstone and lastone to use

Author: Antonio Dieguez

Date: 08:55:27 01/26/03

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On January 26, 2003 at 10:34:51, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>Fen starts from the last rank because, by standard, chess boards are displayed
>with white on the bottom.  It is more natural to read left to right, top to
>bottom, which means a8-h8, a7-h7, ..., a1-h1
>
>It was done for simplicity and nothing else.

Hi, still, I don't know if you don't loop too much, with your magical bitboards,
but with other repr one would like to increment the position when moving forward
with white so it has its simplicity there.

• Re: It seems to me more logical instead of firstone and lastone to use Robert Hyatt 09:00:03 01/26/03
  • Re: It seems to me more logical instead of firstone and lastone to use Antonio Dieguez 09:19:55 01/26/03
    • Re: It seems to me more logical instead of firstone and lastone to use Matt Taylor 10:43:26 01/26/03

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