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soamv
on Sept 15, 2023
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How to store a chess position in 26 bytes using bi...
A chess
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, not a game (still very interesting though!)
madacol
on Sept 15, 2023
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to be more specific a snapshot of the board
calvinmorrison
on Sept 15, 2023
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Storing the game would give you the position though
WithinReason
on Sept 15, 2023
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It took me a moment to see your point: it might take less information to store the entire game using a chess engine by entropy coding than a single position
calvinmorrison
on Sept 16, 2023
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Yeah i guess after a certain number of moves it wouldn't but for the first half it would.
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