Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 20:08:33 05/17/99
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On May 17, 1999 at 22:56:18, KarinsDad wrote: [snip] >This 174 does not include promotions. > >Actually, the 174 bits in the other posts came from a different scheme: > >100 bits 30 pieces and pawns packed >12 bits kings and castling >61 bits (62 remaining squares bitboard - last one not needed) >1 bit side to move > >or something to this affect (but I do not know where ep fits into this, maybe >into the kings structure). OK, stupid question time: Why do we need to store promotions for a position? After all, who cares how I got there. And if the piece information must be retrieved from this format, I could just consider the delta between this position and the previous one. There seems to be something major that I am missing here...
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