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Subject: Re: Is this where the 174 bit minimal figure comes from?

Author: Heiner Marxen

Date: 08:32:51 05/19/99

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On May 18, 1999 at 08:02:09, Peter Klausler wrote:

>On May 17, 1999 at 21:15:59, Dann Corbit wrote:
>
>>You would also need to store e.p. square, if any, I think. Ten bits more
>>[5ep+4castle+1stm]gives 174 bits.
>
>Two bits are all you need for the en passant file, actually.
>There can be at most four pawns of the opponent on his
>fourth rank next to a pawn of the player (on his fifth).

Wrong.  There can be 5 such pawns.  E.g. 8/8/8/8/PpPPpPPp/8/8/8 b -
Even when we know already that there is an e.p. possible, we still
have to distinguish up to at least 5 cases.



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