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Subject: Re: Why using Zobrist keys for Pawn Hasing?

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 01:42:05 12/06/01

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On December 05, 2001 at 08:22:40, Gerd Isenberg wrote:

Suppose in pawnhashtable i would use such a scheme.
first of all using 8 bytes i would store using zobrist like

44 bits and use 20 to index.

Now i miss how you
  a) prevent chaining
  b) number of pawns seems not so hard as i thought.

But like a major majority of positions they get stored at the same
location.


>About the pawn hash key discussions: Why using Zobrist keys for pawn hashing at
>all, at least in BitBoard programs? Isn't it smarter to use a unique 46 Bit
>(Rank2-7) Difference of two colored Pawn-BitBoards instead of zobrist keys for
>pawns? No key collisions and key and index (key mod nEntries) calculation on the
>fly.
>
>Gerd



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