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Subject: Re: Selecting the best board representation (excluding bitboards)

Author: Inmann Werner

Date: 02:00:53 11/10/99

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On November 10, 1999 at 04:12:01, Bas Hamstra wrote:


>It is also fine because you can see very fast if a piece (pseudo-) attacks
>another piece, without scanning squares. You can do that by square relationship
>testing and it is very fast.
>
>Just subtract two squares, add an offset and lookup the result in a simple
>array.
>
>
>Regards,
>Bas Hamstra.
>
>
Hello Bas!

Interesting. Can you explain that "substract" thing a little to me. Seems very
interesting and maybe useful to me. What about sliding figures with something
between ...
I tried much aroun at that problem but still not really happy....
Spend to much time in check detection in my program....

Werner



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