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Subject: How important are Bitboards?

Author: Martin Schreiber

Date: 11:44:54 02/29/04

Hi,

I've two questions:

1.)
is using bitboards a necessary condition to write a strong chess engine? And if
not so, what other good/fast solution we have for the board representation?

2.)
And are there strong freeware or commercial chess engines, which don't use
bitboards?
And what kind of board representation they use?

Thanks for your comments
Martin

Re: How important are Bitboards? Robert Hyatt 16:29:40 02/29/04
- Re: How important are Bitboards? Vincent Diepeveen 16:40:45 02/29/04
  - Re: How important are Bitboards? Robert Hyatt 20:30:45 02/29/04
Re: How important are Bitboards? Vincent Diepeveen 16:28:10 02/29/04
Re: How important are Bitboards? Russell Reagan 12:46:00 02/29/04
Re: How important are Bitboards? David Mitchell 12:13:49 02/29/04
- Re: How important are Bitboards? Gerd Isenberg 13:04:53 02/29/04
  - Re: How important are Bitboards? Vincent Diepeveen 16:39:38 02/29/04
    - Re: How important are Bitboards? Robert Hyatt 13:26:23 03/01/04
    - Re: How important are Bitboards? Robert Hyatt 20:38:31 02/29/04
      - Is SPEC a bad test organisation according to Hyatt? Vincent Diepeveen 09:05:17 03/01/04
        
        Re: Is SPEC a bad test organisation according to Hyatt? Robert Hyatt 11:18:47 03/01/04
        
        Re: Is SPEC a bad test organisation according to Hyatt? Eugene Nalimov 10:49:38 03/01/04
        
        Re: Is SPEC a bad test organisation according to Hyatt? Vincent Diepeveen 11:54:23 03/01/04
        
        Re: Is SPEC a bad test organisation according to Hyatt? Eugene Nalimov 10:59:25 03/01/04
        
        Re: Is SPEC a bad test organisation according to Hyatt? Robert Hyatt 11:20:41 03/01/04
        
        Re: Is SPEC a bad test organisation according to Hyatt? Robert Hyatt 11:24:50 03/01/04
        
        Re: Is SPEC a bad test organisation according to Hyatt? Brian Richardson 12:22:10 03/01/04
        
        Re: Is SPEC a bad test organisation according to Hyatt? Eugene Nalimov 13:43:00 03/01/04
        
        Re: Is SPEC a bad test organisation according to Hyatt? Vincent Diepeveen 15:04:03 03/01/04
        
        Re: Is SPEC a bad test organisation according to Hyatt? Robert Hyatt 13:20:31 03/01/04
        
        Re: Is SPEC a bad test organisation according to Hyatt? Robert Hyatt 13:27:33 03/01/04
        
        Re: Is SPEC a bad test organisation according to Hyatt? Matthew Hull 13:35:06 03/01/04
        
        Re: Is SPEC a bad test organisation according to Hyatt? Vincent Diepeveen 20:09:20 03/01/04
        
        Re: Is SPEC a bad test organisation according to Hyatt? Robert Hyatt 20:29:18 03/01/04
        
        Re: Is SPEC a bad test organisation according to Hyatt? Vincent Diepeveen 12:15:11 03/01/04
        
        Re: Is SPEC a bad test organisation according to Hyatt? Robert Hyatt 13:24:16 03/01/04
        
        Re: Is SPEC a bad test organisation according to Hyatt? Gerd Isenberg 13:53:51 03/01/04
        
        Re: Is SPEC a bad test organisation according to Hyatt? Robert Hyatt 19:18:21 03/01/04
        
        Re: Is SPEC a bad test organisation according to Hyatt? Matthew Hull 14:16:36 03/01/04
        
        Re: Is SPEC a bad test organisation according to Hyatt? Vincent Diepeveen 15:05:55 03/01/04
        
        Re: Is SPEC a bad test organisation according to Hyatt? Frank E. Oldham 15:57:03 03/01/04
        
        Re: Is SPEC a bad test organisation according to Hyatt? Vincent Diepeveen 19:53:39 03/01/04
        
        Re: Is SPEC a bad test organisation according to Hyatt? Frank E. Oldham 21:26:24 03/01/04
        
        Re: Is SPEC a bad test organisation according to Hyatt? Robert Hyatt 19:20:34 03/01/04
        
        Re: Is SPEC a bad test organisation according to Hyatt? Andreas Guettinger 15:45:34 03/01/04
        
        Re: Is SPEC a bad test organisation according to Hyatt? Vincent Diepeveen 19:59:38 03/01/04
        
        Re: Is SPEC a bad test organisation according to Hyatt? Andreas Guettinger 01:38:43 03/02/04
        
        Re: Is SPEC a bad test organisation according to Hyatt? Frank E. Oldham 21:44:37 03/01/04
        
        Re: Is SPEC a bad test organisation according to Hyatt? Robert Hyatt 12:22:57 03/02/04
        
        Re: Is SPEC a bad test organisation according to Hyatt? Robert Hyatt 19:21:55 03/01/04
        
        Hyatt afraid for tests - world champs 2004 Vincent Diepeveen 20:16:56 03/01/04
        
        Re: Hyatt afraid for tests - world champs 2004 Robert Hyatt 20:36:48 03/01/04
Re: How important are Bitboards? Uri Blass 12:05:16 02/29/04

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