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Subject: Re: Fast hash key method - Revisited!

Author: John Bartkiw

Date: 11:04:53 01/14/98

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    Just a question for anyone.  I've noticed most people are using a
table of random numbers to use instead of the actual bitboards.  Can
someone give me the reasoning for this?  Is it do to the sparseness of
the bitboards?

John.

>
>The key in seq A would be something like:
>origKey ^ randTable[white][king][c3] ^
>          randTable[black][king][c6] ^
>          randTable[white][king][b2]
>
>And for B:
>origKey ^ randTable[white][king][c1] ^
>          randTable[black][king][c6] ^
>          randTable[white][king][b2]
>



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