[thoughtFrame]

I don't know of any formal introductions to the topic but you can see them in action in these places too

* some of Daniel Lemire's work in high performance data structures

* the blog posts related to solving board games on https://nullprogram.com

* the articles about board representations on the chess programming wiki https://www.chessprogramming.org/Main_Page

* Any explanation of Quake III's fast inverse square root

[erksa]

Thanks for the resources, these are great! As an avid chess fan I've always played around with the idea of trying making a basic chess engine.. This might just be the push!!