Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 11:15:06 11/19/01
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On November 19, 2001 at 11:42:42, Les Fernandez wrote: >Need to know what the minimum number of bits that are needed to store the worse >case scenario for a pv (ie Qa6xb7# or fxg1=Q+). As you can see both these >strings are 7 characters long and represent the longest possible situation. If >someone is aware of how to represent these 2 conditions with the fewest number >of bits I would appreciate it. > >Thanks, > >Les 8 bits. Store the move number index from a canonical move generator that emits moves in a fixed order for a given position. Since there are more than 128 moves in many positions, and (so far) less than 256 in _any_ position, 8 bits would do the trick.
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