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Subject: Re: Dangerously stupid tablebase idea...

Author: Stephen A. Boak

Date: 07:57:22 10/19/01

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Dann,

>On October 19, 2001 at 01:31:10, Dann Corbit wrote:
>Another "SQUISH-ER-ATOR" idea.  When we have some sets of pieces (consider with
>side to move = KNN) there are only a few moves possible.  You can never have
>more than 24 choices (for instance) when you have KNN and it is your turn to
>move.  Hence, for this tablebase, we would only need 5 bits to store the move
>choice.

But don't you need more coding to specify which 24 squares of the 64 squares
total on the board are mapped to those 24 choices?

--Steve



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