New free tool : Bitboards Helper

[casey]

Too late to me. I have wished to have a similar tool when I have started. Now I have integrated so many functions to my prog to examine bits.

BTW, I think it will be more useful if you add some more manipulate functions such as ones to rotate 90, 180, count number of bit, shift left, shift right...

[tpetzke]

>>You get to do some "mental gymnastics" to visualize the board when you >>dump a hex value.

This is nothing compared to the mental gymnastics that come with rotated bitboards. Those transformations brought me close to my mental limits, especially the bishop mover stuff.

Thomas...

[bob]

>>You get to do some "mental gymnastics" to visualize the board when you >>dump a hex value.

This is nothing compared to the mental gymnastics that come with rotated bitboards. Those transformations brought me close to my mental limits, especially the bishop mover stuff.

Thomas...

I wrote the initial implementation while my wife was driving us from Birmingham AL to Orlando florida, a 10+ hour drive. By the time I got there, I had it working, and also had the worst headache I have ever had...