I am now working on my own chess API and it’s actually pretty fun. I learned that using bitboards is apparently very efficient. So I now use 8 64bit bitboards, 2 for the color and 6 for the pieces (I thought about just using 7 because you COULD theoretically represent the colors in one bitboard, but using 2 makes it faster at the expense of an extra 64 bit, which is neglegible). Gonna continue on this in the upcoming days :3
@claras_universe Neat. This reminds me of the Amiga’s bitplane graphics. 16-color mode used 4 bits per pixel, slicing each of the 4 bits into a separate 1-bit bitplane. This format is probably slower for representing chess pieces, though.
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