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Subject: Re: Thought on chess positions (and solving chess?!)

Author: Danniel Corbit

Date: 19:37:25 09/21/98

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On September 21, 1998 at 22:16:07, Jeff Anderson wrote:

>This is not even an idea as much as a useless half-thought born in the mind of a
>bored highschool student.  Still I thought it might be slightly relevant.
>
>Imagine a set of overlayed transparencies, each with a chessboard printed on it,
>completely blank becides one piece.  For every piece, black and white, there are
>64 transparecies, each having a blank board it and one piece on a different
>square each time.  Now total you would have 768 transparence sheets.  If you
>overlay them in front of you, every possible position on a chessboard can be
>reached by removing certain ones.
>
>Could a computer some how internally sort its way through these 'transparecies'
>extremely fast?
Tweaked a bit, this idea is called "bitboards" and is commonly used.
See, for instance:
http://www.xs4all.nl/~verhelst/chess/representations.html
http://wwwipd.ira.uka.de/Tichy/DarkThought/node7.html
http://home.fda.net/~wzrdking/bitboard.htm
http://home.fda.net/~wzrdking/index.htm



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