Mailbox

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]. || toc =Implementations= > 0x88
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 * 10x12 Board
 * Vector Attacks

=See also=
 * Array
 * Mailbox in Minimax

=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
 * 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=
 * [|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]

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