Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 06:57:30 01/29/02
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On January 28, 2002 at 17:48:48, Les Fernandez wrote: >Just curious to know what is the best being done now for storing a chess >position. In the worse case scenario (castling right exists) it takes me 162 >bits to store 32 pieces, color, location, side to move, castling, enpassant, >promotion, ce and pv. Now if castling rights do not exist then the worse case >scenario for the above is 81 bits. Much further reduction in bits/position is >possible but at the moment I am interested in the above. > >Thanks in advance, > >Les How can you store a complete chess position without castling rights in 81 bits? castling rights are certainly not 81 bits of information to get you up to 162. Something is wrong.
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