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Bitboard-Chess,
a WinBoard compliant, didactic open source chess program by Bill Jordan, written in C++ and licensed under the licensed under the GPL version 3. Bitboard-Chess is designed to show how a chess engine might work, quite similar to Bills Bare Bones Chess aka Basic-Chess, but using bitboards ^[1]. Bitboard serialization is done via Matt Taylor's folded BitScan, but move generation of sliding pieces is done in mailbox manner iterating over ray directions and pre-calculated target squares.

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