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Subject: Re: Question about Bit storage

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.

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