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Subject: Re: Storing a position

Author: Mike S.

Date: 17:49:26 05/04/04

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On May 04, 2004 at 17:33:59, Dieter Buerssner wrote:

>(...)
>2) Only 29 pieces are needed - we know the 2 Ks already, when there are 32
>pieces on the board, we always know what the last piece will be, given the
>first 31 pieces.

I needed quite some time to understand, that there cannot be a case where only
one pawn is missing from complete set (as the 2+30th piece) and we don't know
what it may be IOW if it has been promoted or not, and into which piece :-)

Because then, it must be a pawn still.

This has retroanalytical aspects :-))

mfg.
Michael



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