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Subject: Re: Counting & Encoding Any Chess Position in 157 bits

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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