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Subject: Re: Minimum bits for chess board representation?

Author: Les Fernandez

Date: 18:41:29 09/29/00

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On September 29, 2000 at 19:11:17, Bo Sjögren wrote:

>Some time ago, maybe a year or so, there was an interesting
>discussing about the minimum number of bits necessary to store an
>arbitrary chess position. What was the conclusion of the
>discussion? Can I find the discussion in the archive, or a
>summary somewhere on the net?
>
>Regards,
>Bo S
Hi Bo,

I cant remember exactly when there was quite a bit of discussion regarding this
subject only to tell you that I was quite involved with it at the time along
with many others.  I thnik the person you should post here is KARINSDAD who
worked on this quite a bit and from when I last spoke to him was able to store
the board position in something like 153 bits I think that was including EP and
castling.  I will see if I have any records as to about when this thread ripped
through here but I am sure KD can provide you with some info.  In fact I took
the thread over to the MS newsgroup and we had a good one going there also.

Good Luck,

Les



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