Re: Internal representation of the board

[Mousheng Xu <xu@xxxxxxxxxx>]

At 12:31 PM 3/29/99 +0200, Maurizio M. Gavioli wrote:
>A very small and low level detail...
>
>At 10.08 28/03/99 -0800, David Fotland wrote:
>
>>I use a 19x19 board representation, so checking the 2 or 3 or 4 adjacent
>>points
>>has a little bit of overhead.  If I had to start over I would use a 21x21
>>board
>>to make this faster, but it's too late now to rewrite all that code :(
>>
>>David
>
>Thanks to you all for the very enlightening discussion!!
>
>Anyway, coming back to the topic. I discovered that even 21x21 board
>representation is not enough and I need 23x23, mainly for liberty count.

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