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>- A 10x10 board with an unreachable edge has some advantages when laid out as a linear array because it allows for much easier memory management (premature opt

>- A 10x10 board with an unreachable edge has some advantages when laid out as a linear array because it allows for much easier memory management (premature optimizations and all that...). On an 8x8 board laid out linearly the edges have no way of limiting piece movement But with an 8x8 board you can store all free fields in a single 64-bit integer That could be fast, would it not?

jacquesm 6y ago
That's worth benchmarking. 10x12 as mentioned above would require two of those.
__s 6y ago
There's quite a few tricks on that front: https://www.chessprogramming.org/Magic_Bitboards https://www.chessprogramming.org/Magic_Bitboards