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While the series offers a nice introduction in interactive chess engine programming and [[Bitboards|bitboard]] techniques,
the advanced approach of [[Magic Bitboards]] to determine [[Sliding Piece Attacks|sliding piece attacks]] with all its lengthly initialization topics might be hard to understand and deterrent for the intended novice target group.
The linewise approaches of [[First Rank Attacks]] to intruduce occupancy lookups, followed by [[Kindergarten Bitboards]] - as intermediate step towards magics bitboards - would be seem didactically more appropriate.
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