Computer Chess Club Archives

Search

Messages

Subject: Help on bitboards

Author: Toni

Date: 18:23:46 12/24/03

Hi all.

I'm starting my chess engine and I'm dealing with bitboards. I find natural to
code the board as:

a8 ... h8
.      .
.      .
.      .
a1 ... h1

so bit0 = h1 and bit 63= a8, viewing the board from white's point of view.

In the literature and in some engines other bitboards are used. For example,
beowulf uses:

h1 ... a1
.      .
.      .
.      .
h8 ... a8

Is there a reason for that?

Regards

Toni

• Re: Help on bitboards Robert Hyatt 20:19:00 12/24/03
  • Re: Help on bitboards Sean Mintz 20:24:39 12/24/03
    • Re: Help on bitboards Robert Hyatt 21:30:11 12/24/03
• Re: Help on bitboards Russell Reagan 19:59:18 12/24/03
  • Re: Help on bitboards Alessandro Damiani 01:08:57 12/25/03
    • Re: Help on bitboards Tom Likens 05:48:19 12/25/03
      • Re: Help on bitboards Alessandro Damiani 12:04:57 12/25/03
        • Re: Thanks (n/t) Tom Likens 18:25:43 12/25/03
• Re: Help on bitboards Uri Blass 19:25:58 12/24/03
  • Re: Help on bitboards Toni 04:19:33 12/25/03

This page took 0 seconds to execute

Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700

Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.