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Subject: Re: To bitboard or not to bitboard?

Author: Joel

Date: 01:22:11 08/31/03

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My chess engine uses rotated bitboards. Here is my opinion, make of it what you
will:

- Don't use bitboards since Crafty does.
- Don't use them for a speed increase.
- Don't use them if you think they will make you code simpler.
- Don't use them since 64bit processors are going to become the norm.

In fact, I would not recommend anyone using bitboards at all _unless_ they have
thought about exactly what they are wanting from their engine in the future.

Reiterating my point, it's pointless choosing a data structure this complicated
unless you can see a _very_ good reason to do so.

A happy bitboarder,
Joel





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