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Subject: Re: killers and history

Author: Peter Fendrich

Date: 14:05:15 01/23/03

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On January 23, 2003 at 16:54:40, Ulrich Tuerke wrote:

>>
>>Can you explain again, where the name "butterfly table" comes from?
>>
>
>Hello Gerd,
>
>my refutation table looks like this
>
>struct RefEntry RefTab[2][64][64];
>
>Ignoring the 1st index (the color), the refutation table is indexed by "from"
>and "to" squares of the preceeding move. If you draw from and to in a coordinate
>system as x- and y -axes, and you fill in the "from" and "to" combinations,
>which correspond to legal moves, then you get some pattern, reminding on the
>wings of a butterfly. This is at least what the authors have said (iirc). I
>myself have never been curious enough to try.
>
>Uli

There is an old ICCA Journal article, showing these butterfly patterns.
I can't recall which one...
/Peter



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