Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 12:31:54 11/21/01
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On November 21, 2001 at 08:00:19, Tord Romstad wrote: >On November 19, 2001 at 14:15:06, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>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. > >What is the meaning of the phrase "so far" here? It is easy to construct a >position with more than 256 legal moves. Of course such a position is >extremely unlikely to arise in actual play, but I wouldn't bet my life on it. If you can construct such a (legal) position, you will have the record. No one has constructed such a position. I believe the record is somewhere around 224 legal move possibilities.
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