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Subject: Re: Move structure

Author: Russell Reagan

Date: 14:22:11 02/21/04

On February 21, 2004 at 16:52:58, Christophe Theron wrote:

>The move type in Chess Tiger is a 16 bits unsigned int (2 bytes). However I do
>not store the pieces (moved/captured) in the move itself. The only piece
>information stored in the move is the new piece in case of a promotion.
>
>I used to have a 32 bits unsigned int move type 3 years ago (4 bytes) and used
>to consider it as very inefficient... I changed it in Chess Tiger 13.

Does it really make a big difference on a PC? How about on a PDA? Or does it
just make you cringe to waste 2 bytes per move? :)

Re: Move structure Christophe Theron 10:51:01 02/22/04
- Re: Move structure Omid David Tabibi 07:51:54 02/23/04
  - Re: Move structure Russell Reagan 13:11:38 02/23/04
    - Re: Move structure Omid David Tabibi 14:17:09 02/24/04
      - Re: Move structure Robert Hyatt 17:38:06 02/24/04
        
        Re: Move structure Omid David Tabibi 05:17:03 02/25/04
        
        Re: Move structure Robert Hyatt 08:02:29 02/25/04
        
        Re: Move structure martin fierz 04:08:36 02/26/04
        
        Re: Move structure Robert Hyatt 10:23:33 02/26/04
        
        Re: Move structure martin fierz 11:10:58 02/26/04
        
        Re: Move structure Uri Blass 04:38:01 02/26/04
- Re: Move structure Russell Reagan 11:21:32 02/22/04

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