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Subject: Re: 0x88 board? What is is?

Author: Bruce Moreland

Date: 13:39:18 08/24/99

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On August 24, 1999 at 16:22:59, James Robertson wrote:

>Yikes. That looks scary. I guess my next question is: "are they faster than
>rotated bitboards?" Has anyone done comparisons of the two?

It is not scary, it is very simple.  It is a little more scary then other offset
methods, but those are way more disgusting and do less.

With these few data structures you can do move generation and attack detection
very simply.

It doesn't matter if it is faster than rotated bitboards.

bruce



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