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Subject: Re: Minimum Number of Bytes

Author: Reinhard Scharnagl

Date: 07:46:33 12/24/03

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On December 24, 2003 at 10:40:19, Christophe Theron wrote:

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>Please explain how storing anything that has to do with 50 moves rules or
>position repetition in the compressed would help avoiding considering the whole
>game history.
>
>In any case you cannot avoid, if you want to deal with 50 moves rules or
>repetition detection, to have the whole game history available.
>
>So storing anything about these in the compressed position is just a waste of
>space.

Hi Christophe,

I fully agree with you. Only information for which it makes sense to be stored
in a transposition table too is relevant.

Reinhard.



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