Author: Heiner Marxen
Date: 21:24:35 11/22/01
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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. > >Tord Uuh, please show it (that easy to construct position). It may be as unlikely as you want, as long as it is reachable by legal play. As far as I know, 218 legal moves is the record for a legaly reachable position (which already is "extremely unlikely to arise in actual play"). Heiner
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