Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 09:58:05 06/27/99
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On June 27, 1999 at 10:48:52, Michel Langeveld wrote: >Brief description or will be ok. >What are the advantages? >What are the disadvantages? A bitboard is a 64-bit integer. There are 64 squares on a chessboard, so you get one bit per square. This can be a useful data structure in a chess program. Some chess programs, notably Crafty, make heavy use of bitboards for move generation, attack detection, and various evaluation function purposes. Crafty seems to be able to do its common tasks efficiently using these, but there are methods that are easier to understand and implement. bruce
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