Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by thurn 1001 days ago
It is of course possible to break these rules via promotion, e.g. having two dark square bishops is entirely possible.
1 comments

But in those cases you're missing the pawn that was promoted, so the location of the second dark-square bishop would be encoded in a 6-bit pawn slot rather than a 5-bit or base-33 bishop slot.