Author: Tony Werten
Date: 00:57:03 02/11/00
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On February 10, 2000 at 20:25:51, Andrew Dados wrote:
>On February 10, 2000 at 17:34:52, Tom Kerrigan wrote:
>
> I define a structure:
>{
>piece: piecetype;
>color: colortype;
>index: byte (index into piece list);
>dummy: byte
>}
>
>Although byte data size 'is evil' whole thing fits nicely into 32bit size size.
>So 0x88 board is array[127] of dword data.
> While you can easily combine 2 bytes into piececolor with some higher bit set
>for, say, white, it would complicate my code quite a lot. Note trick Chess
>Genius used (uses?): King and Rooks with castling rights have one of high bits
>set to mark that...
Might be easier to use the dummy-byte for that ?
Tony
>
>-Andrew-
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