Hi all and Happy New Year! I have been trying to write a chess engine for sometime now! I have read almost all the articles online, however I am strugling this are few questions i would appreciate if you give me some help ok first of all I am using 12 bitboard to represnt each type of piece, I also have bitboard for empty space and whites. I am writting this chess engine in Java. Now my question is I have 12 bitboards, in order to generate move for a pawn do I have to create new bitboard just for this pawn? or how does it work! i cant get hold of move generation and where to store generate moves. i decided that i would generate all the moves when program loads. well i hope i did explain my problem well... any help would be good THANK YOU!! p.s. happy new year!