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Subject: Re: It is impossible to represent board position by 100 bits

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 18:11:44 05/21/99

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On May 21, 1999 at 20:49:02, blass uri wrote:

>I think that even representing positions when
>there are 32 pieces on the board is impossible by 100 bits.
>
>we have 15^8 options for the pawns.
>15 options  in every file(choosing the pawns in a file is chossing 2 squares out
>of 6)
I don't think so.  Consider only 7 pawns of each color:
4k3/Pp6/Pp6/Pp6/Pp6/Pp6/Pp6/4K3 w - -
It looks legal, but can it happen?  I say no.  Arrangement of pieces is not as
simple as throwing them on the board to see where they land.  The position must
be possible in a game somehow.
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