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Subject: Re: Bitboard by any simple engine?

Author: Tony Werten

Date: 13:31:39 05/28/04

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On May 28, 2004 at 15:32:29, Russell Reagan wrote:

>On May 28, 2004 at 14:52:09, Slater Wold wrote:
>
>>On May 28, 2004 at 14:19:06, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
>>
>>>On May 28, 2004 at 12:01:17, Gopikrishna wrote:
>>>
>>>>I would like to know if any simple engine uses bitboard representation.Because
>>>>Crafty's bitboard is complicated and I would like to find some other engine
>>>>using a simpler representation.And also what are the other ways of board
>>>>representation? Thanks.
>>>
>>>If you give your email adress i can ship you diep's move generator with source
>>>code and code to initialize tables.
>>>
>>>Best regards,
>>>Vincent
>>
>>While you're handing it out, slaterwold@earthlink.net.  :)
>
>Here you go.
>
>http://chessprogramming.org/cccsearch/ccc.php?art_id=310440
>
>If you can figure out what is going on, please explain it to the rest of us.

It's basic idea is the gnuchess move generator, but made much more efficient by
not hopping all through the squares array, but keeping all consequetive moves in
a row.

It also makes the efficiency of the move generator independant of the board
size.

Tony




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