Author: Reinhard Scharnagl
Date: 19:34:44 12/24/03
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On December 24, 2003 at 15:08:55, Dann Corbit wrote: >On December 24, 2003 at 14:53:53, Reinhard Scharnagl wrote: > >>Hello Dann, >> >>thank you for the illustration. Now I have integrated the possibility of >>encoding the position of kings and castling enabled rooks in one 12 bit >>table, see: [http://www.rescon.de/Compu/schachzahl1_e.html] and following. > >This is a very interesting project for me. > >It might also be interesting to subtract positions from the maximum possible. > >After you have a minimal encoding where you cannot reduce it any further, then >do a calculation to find out how many ways it is possible to have both kings >simultaneously in check. You can subtract this count from the total. > >I think your current board position may be the current record for a hard proof >of the floor of possible board permutations. > >If you can encode them all, there cannot possibly be more board positions than >that. I already have tried to estimate somehow into that direction, see at: [http://www.rescon.de/Compu/schachzahl1b_e.html]. Reinhard.
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