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Re:How to Store a Chess Game in 26 Bytes Using Bit-Level Mag... by TylerE on Friday September 15, 2023 @04:24PM (#37528678)
A standard archiver like 7zip is probably a loss due to the metadata/format headers etc. When your plain text is only a few hundred bytes to start with...

I suspect the winner would be something like an LZMA derivative with a fixed dictionary. I doubt not using an adaptive encoder would be a big loss as PGN (exlcuding the metadata) is quite far from random bytes.

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