Asri-unix.510
net.chess
utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!menlo70!sri-unix!HDT@MIT-MC
Thu Jan 14 12:16:20 1982

From: Howard D. Trachtman <HDT MIT-MC AT>
		A friend and I are considering several possible encoding
strategies for end game positions, but what has been discussed is not entirely 
applicable.
		We want to restrict ourselves to finding new ways of handling
end games in which a maximum of 5 pieces other than the kings are on the board.

Could the readers kindly supply an algorithm for saving space when given
a specific chess position.  (The optimal solution seems to require knowledge
of which 5 pieces are selected at the beginning of the endgame).

						Thanks very much,

						Howard D. Trachtman <HDT@MC>

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