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Subject: Re: bitboard question

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 13:58:05 01/13/99

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On January 13, 1999 at 12:52:21, John Coffey wrote:

>
>>as far as 'didn't provide you with all the information you want' that might
>>be the result of not working with them long enough.  I haven't found a single
>>question I can't answer with bitboards... and many times the question is easier
>>to answer with them than without...  particularly in evaluation where I spend
>>a bunch of time...
>
>I wanted to take into account who controls the most number of squares as a
>part of my evaluation.  Do you think that this can be answered with bitboards?
>Perhaps some programs already do this?
>
>john coffey


Most any question you can answer with an offset program I can answer with
bitboards.  I did this early in the development of crafty, but I didn't like
the result, any more than I liked using "mobility" for pieces.  I found other
scoring terms were more effective and cheaper to compute...



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