Author: KarinsDad
Date: 06:29:37 09/23/99
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I'd use Bitboards if I was you. You are an experienced programmer, not a newbie programmer. The concepts are not that hard, but they do take a little study to understand. However, there are many examples on the net of the basic algorithms both with and without bitboards. I think the pet answer for a new chess programmer on this forum has been "use one of the simple methods" until you figure it out for so long that people forget that there are experience programmers out there who can pick things up quickly. I for one would not want to write 20K of code and then find out that I have to scrap most of it at a later time because I wanted to implement a feature that slows my engine down to a crawl. What I did was research the topic quite a bit first before jumping in and writing code. And from that experience, I decided to try a bunch of different techniques and not be deadlocked into "standard procedures". You may not want to go to that level, but I would recommend reading some of the material by Plaat and others off of the link page here at CCC. Use what is available and write the best program you can. KarinsDad :)
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