I am trying to find a quick and fast way to check for alignment of 5 bits in a 6x6 board in all directions (diagonal, horizontal, vertical). The board is represented as a bitboard as they are very fas...

I'm writing a chess engine, and am trying to make it as fast as possible, so I'm using bitboards to represent each type of piece. I was printing out the number of different board states at each plie (...