Author: Mathieu Pagé
Date: 06:42:21 03/04/05
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On March 04, 2005 at 05:12:51, Reinhard Scharnagl wrote: >On March 04, 2005 at 04:48:36, Dann Corbit wrote: > >>What do you calculate as the theoretical maximum, using your encoding? > >That is hard to say. There still are a lot of redundancies within this >encoding: there might be still of illegal or impossible positions to be >encoded, and some very theoretically extisting extreme promotion situations >will have an excessive length. > >I think, that it would be best to use that code to encode all positions >of a set of PGN data, estimating an average length of more practical >relevance than I have estimated. > >Nevertheless I think, the limit might be around 2*(10^43) as I have read >from N. Petrovic. > >Reinhard. I have a database of about 190 millions chess positions if you are interested. MP.
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