Improve move generation speed

niklasf / python-chess

A chess library for Python, with move generation and validation, PGN parsing and writing, Polyglot opening book reading, Gaviota tablebase probing, Syzygy tablebase probing, and UCI/XBoard engine communication

https://python-chess.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

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Improve move generation speed #31

Closed niklasf closed 9 years ago

niklasf commented 9 years ago

S. Tannous describes a method for faster move generation in languages like Python by avoiding rotated bitboards. It comes with a complete implementation of a chess engine.

This would be an excellent way to improve move generation speed in python-chess.

niklasf commented 9 years ago

Done.