Author: James Long
Date: 09:23:11 02/20/99
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On February 19, 1999 at 23:52:52, Greg Lazarou wrote: >I've heard quite a bit about bitboards in posts here and I'm trying to figure >out what they are and why they increase performance so much? Are there any links >to go and read an article about them? > >I think they are a way to represent the board but why rotate them and where is >the big benefit? Right now I basically use a variation on the basic array of 64 >integers to represent the board (ala TSCP) and I get about 30K nodes/sec on a >Pentium 200. But I see discussions of 100-200+ K nodes/sec on similar hardware >with bitboards! > >Thanks in advance for any hints/tips... > >Greg Try http://home.fda.net/~wzrdking/chessprg.htm Good luck. :-) -- James
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