Pith Number

pith:ZQS3DSFN

pith:2025:ZQS3DSFNQG24XAVBVA6DPC5RLS

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Inferring Piece Value in Chess and Chess Variants

Steven E. Pav

arxiv:2509.04691 v3 · 2025-09-04 · stat.AP

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\pithnumber{ZQS3DSFNQG24XAVBVA6DPC5RLS}

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First computed	2026-06-11T01:09:16.588633Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

cc25b1c8ad81b5cb82a1a83c378bb15cbc7f3a17265f39178a8b82680cb8648b

Aliases

arxiv: 2509.04691 · arxiv_version: 2509.04691v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2509.04691 · pith_short_12: ZQS3DSFNQG24 · pith_short_16: ZQS3DSFNQG24XAVB · pith_short_8: ZQS3DSFN

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/ZQS3DSFNQG24XAVBVA6DPC5RLS \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: cc25b1c8ad81b5cb82a1a83c378bb15cbc7f3a17265f39178a8b82680cb8648b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c7e41bce301b92a8d411e302dafe92dcfb5f3d8b394ef7b18e947723ffad2409",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.AP",
    "submitted_at": "2025-09-04T22:40:22Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5b002a250f69fb55221374594af4c634483b36c867ba908f1b4a5698745c62ba"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2509.04691",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}