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Re:How to Store a Chess Game in 26 Bytes Using Bit-Level Mag... by teo_zero on Saturday September 16, 2023 @05:52PM (#37539094)
Do you perhaps mean that there was no white king?
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Re:How to Store a Chess Game in 26 Bytes Using Bit-Level Mag... by LorenPechtel on Saturday September 16, 2023 @07:01PM (#37539679)
No black king--in other words, you don't know where the black king is since it must exist. The puzzle was to find the move that would mate the king no matter what square it was in.
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