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Subject: Re: It may be impossible to represent all board positions with 160 bits

Author: KarinsDad

Date: 13:04:42 05/28/99

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On May 28, 1999 at 13:49:57, J. Wesley Cleveland wrote:

>Sorry, I failed to make clear that my calculations were for all the pieces on
>the board, thus no promotions. I was trying to set a lower bound for the number
>of possible positions.
>

Yes, I understand that now. See my other post in this thread to see that the
lower bound is really closer to 100 bits than 114 bits (but, of course, it
starts becoming very nebulous there).

KarinsDad :)



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