Re: [pbmserv] question about the game "Alak"

[Randall Bart <barticus@att.net>]

'Twas 04:18 PM -0400 on Friday 10/7/2005 when Mike Felts wrote:
> That's only 2187 board positions for 7 stone Alak right?

Correct. It would require 12 pits to encode that number, but we can just 
use two bits per space which is 14 bits.  An extra two bytes per turn of 
state info shouldn't be much overhead.

A Go board has 361 spaces.  At 2 bits per space this is 91 bytes.  That 
would be a significant increase in the file size, but is that an issue?  If 
so, a 64 bit hash should suffice.

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