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Subject: Re: Storing a position

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 11:55:02 05/04/04

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On May 04, 2004 at 14:07:55, Chris Hull wrote:

>Does anyone know of a way to store any legal chess position in 160 bits?
>
>I am only concerned with those position that can be legally reach within
>a game. It must include ways to store some wacky but legal positions like
>10 rooks or 10 bishops or 9 queens or no pawn but 28 combined pieces on
>both sides, plus all the more regular looking ones.
>
>Thanks.
>
>Chris


The previous attempt used what is called arithmetic encoding.  A search thru
rec.games.chess.computer for that should pull up a description.




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