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Subject: Re: Problem with TT

Author: Andrew Williams

Date: 13:25:23 07/11/03

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On July 11, 2003 at 10:55:37, Grzegorz Sidorowicz wrote:

>It is any path.
>Other chess programs prefere 64 bits more often than 32?
>....but my friend Tomasz Michniewski (author of Tytan 2) use
>also 32 bit TT and his program find solution in this position very quickly.
>

Certainly it's possible that Tomasz gets the position with a 32-bit hash key,
but it's almost certain to cause MULTIPLE clashes, so I would strongly recommend
switching to 64 bits. Of course, that probably isn't  your problem, but it might
cause you problems elsewhere.

AW

>>Are you hashing with only 32 bits instead of 64 with
>>
>>unsigned long glob_troper;// hash_code for current position
>>
>>If so, there may be too many entries mapping to the same position
>>for the search to work well enough to find the solution.



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