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Subject: Re: How important are Bitboards?

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 12:05:16 02/29/04

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On February 29, 2004 at 14:44:54, Martin Schreiber wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I've two questions:
>
>1.)
>is using bitboards a necessary condition to write a strong chess engine?

No


 And if
>not so, what other good/fast solution we have for the board representation?

Board representation is not very important.

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

Movei is not strong freeware engine but I do not think that board representation
is the reason.

I use simply info[64]

Uri



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