Mailbox
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A fantastical mailbox [1]
Mailbox, (Offset board representation [2]) a square-centric board representation where the encoding of every square resides in a separately addressable memory element, usually an element of an array for random access. The square number, or its file and rank, acts like an address to a post box, which might be empty or may contain one chess piece. As pointed out by Harm Geert Muller, not only the embedded 10x12 board, but various implementations are all mailbox, independently from elements in the array for padding that can act as a sentinel value [3].
Implementations
See also
Publications
- Claude Shannon (1949). Programming a Computer for Playing Chess. pdf from The Computer History Museum
- Dietrich Prinz (1952). Robot Chess. Research, Vol. 6, reprinted 1988 in Computer Chess Compendium
- Alex Bell (1972). Games Playing with Computers. Allen & Unwin, ISBN-13: 978-0080212227
- Dan Spracklen, Kathe Spracklen (1978). First Steps in Computer Chess Programming. BYTE, Vol. 3, No. 10, pdf from The Computer History Museum
- David Levy (1979). Computer and Chess - How the monster thinks. Elektor, January 1979 [4]
- Robert Hyatt (1981). Checkmate: The Cray-1 Plays Chess. Part 1. Cray Channels, Vol. 3, No. 1. pdf from The Computer History Museum
Forum Posts
- Bitboards vs Mailbox vs 0X88 by Bruce Cleaver, CCC, June 02, 1998 » 0x88, Bitboards
- 0x88 vs mailbox by Stuart Cracraft, CCC, September 16, 2004 » 0x88
- Mailbox info by Anonymous, Winboard Forum, May 08, 2005
- Board representation : 0x88 or 10x12 ? by Philippe, Winboard Forum, March 02, 2006 » 0x88
- move generation with one dimensional "12 x 10" array by Andrew Short, CCC, August 22, 2008
- mailbox & CPW by Harm Geert Muller, CCC, May 31, 2013
External Links
- Board representation (chess) - Array based from Wikipedia
- Chess board representations by Robert Hyatt
- Mailbox (disambiguation) from Wikipedia
References
- ↑ A fantastical mailbox designed by Frederick C. Sauer around 1930 in the Sauer Buildings Historic District in Aspinwall, Pennsylvania. Image by Lee Paxton on May 16, 2010
- ↑ Chess board representations by Robert Hyatt
- ↑ mailbox & CPW by Harm Geert Muller, CCC, May 31, 2013
- ↑ Publication Archive from Chess Computer UK by Mike Watters
