At 07:32 PM 6/20/2000 -0500, you wrote:
Video Chess only needs 32 bytes for the board. Since there are fewer than
16 chess pieces (KQBNRPx2), you can encode each square in a single nibble.
I don't know if that is how its implemented, but it makes sense.
In the interview, Larry Wagner said he needed 64 for the pieces, so I'm
assuming he used them all and wasted the bits. In the 2600 sometimes the
overhead of RAM optimization takes too long to be practical, or wastes more
memory in the process (RAM or ROM).
One of the cool things about Video Chess is that you can set up unrealistic
boards, for instance, 16 rooks vs. 16 knights.
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