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Subject: Re: bitboard vs 0x88 again?

Author: Tord Romstad

Date: 03:10:33 10/08/03

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On October 07, 2003 at 20:19:00, Russell Reagan wrote:

>On October 07, 2003 at 19:44:10, Jaime Benito de Valle Ruiz wrote:
>
>>I'm sure you could make use of that 8x8 array to implement non-bitboard
>>functions where appropriate and use the bitboard ones where they're more
>>convenient, taking advantage of both approaches; I don't know why this has to be
>>regarded as a dichotomy!
>
>Unfortunately many of the advantages of 0x88-like systems cannot be taken
>advantage of using a 64-element array.

True, but bitboards are not necessarily incompatible with board arrays
bigger than 64 elements.

Tord



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