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Subject: Re: another question,thank you

Author: Zach Wegner

Date: 08:09:10 12/04/03

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On December 04, 2003 at 10:34:35, Maurizio Di Vitto wrote:

>I'd like to thanks mr Wegner for the last explanation, it was very clear. I have
>another question. I have just initialized rank_attack[64][256], I red all your
>instruction and I found that solution very interesting, I did the same for
>file_attack[64][256], I mean that I used an int rotated_bitboard906[64] that
>represent the rotated bitboard, so I declared a bitboard called temp[64][256] to
>memorize all the situation about a file, but I see that like a rank, so what I'd
>like to know is how I can memorize that bitboards to file_attack[64][256], I am
>not sure that this is the right way, but i think file_attack[64][256] should
>represent the file state just as files and not as ranks.
>Thanks a lot again.
>Maurizio Di Vitto

I'm not sure exactly what you are asking, but it seems you do not have a rotated
bitboard representing the occupied squares. Keep this along with your normal
bitboards, and update incrementally with mask[rotateL90[x]] rather than mask[x].
It is the same as the occupied, but being rotated allows you to know the state
of a file in 8 adjacent bits. Then it is used just as if it is the rank_attacks
array, but it is initialized  by shifting the bits up and down instead of left
and right.

Regards,
Zach



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