Question

My Questions are:

1. Is is possible to implement a bitboard in vb.net?
2. Any Tutorial/Reference to do bitboard in VB?

C# answers are acceptable because it’s not that hard to translate.

Answer 1

From the Wikipedia article, a bitboard seems to be a simple array of bits. There is a class in .NET called BitArray, with methods to perform bitwise operations.

For example, a bitboard for white rook positions could be declared like this:

'Create bit array to store white rooks
Dim whiteRooks As New BitArray(64)

'Set white rooks at initial position
whiteRooks(0) = True 'Corresponds to A1 on chess board
whiteRooks(56) = True 'Corresponds to H1 on chess board