Chess board representation

Requirements

In order to implement a chess game it is important to decide in what structure the board should be saved. This structure needs to address some requirements

• the state need to save all information to reconstruct the current state of the game
• it should be easy to determine if an move is invalid e.g. move outside of the board
• moving figures based on their move pattern should be easy to do
• the board should be saved memory efficient

0x88 board presentation

The 0x88 board representation is described in : http://web.archive.org/web/20070909095550/http://www.seanet.com/~brucemo/topics/0x88.htm