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Subject: Important Savings Condition

Author: KarinsDad

Date: 08:57:59 05/18/99

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Another major condition I forgot to mention:

If there are 16 pieces/pawns for one color found so far, than all color bits can
be dropped for pieces/pawns of the other color remaining in the structure.

This is an important savings since a LOT of positions before captures have white
pieces on ranks 1 through 6 and black pieces on ranks 3 through 8. This saves as
much as 15 bits for the black pieces (e.g. in the opening). This is a HUGE
savings which virtually validates this schema for real positions.

KarinsDad :)



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