Author: Les Fernandez
Date: 11:01:49 12/29/02
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On December 29, 2002 at 10:16:33, Dan Andersson wrote: >There are a number of way to check if a pawn position is pseudo-legal. >Backtracking is fairly cheap. And if you want to bound it by the number of >captures made it is easy. Add a cost array and you are done. A quicker test is >using this property: > The 'backwards capture triangle' area of any pawn must not have more pawns in >it than the number of squares at its base. This can also be bounded by the >available number of captures. > P > xxx > xxxxx > bbbbbbb > >MvH Dan Andersson Hi Dan, Thanks for this! I have never seen that before but thats the kind of stuff I am looking for. I will look at this more thoroughly. Thanks, Les
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