Author: Bob OBob
Date: 22:25:23 11/12/99
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On November 10, 1999 at 02:53:57, Ratko V Tomic wrote:
> 3.6
> The ep status also wasn't encoded,
> but since there could be at most 4 ep capture targets (white
> assumed to move, thus 4 targets are black pawns on the 5-th rank),
> the ep would add at most log2(5)=2.32 bits (to the 154.110 bit
> position code length; some checks on pawn counts in MC state could
> lower this further). Thus the ep+castle status would still keep
> the full position code length below 157 bits.
Fifth rank: wp bp bp wp bp bp wp bp
Any one of *five* black pawns might be vulnerable
So, a fraction of a bit more
Bob O`Bob
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