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Subject: Re: Storing and reading exact- and upper bounds from hash

Author: Carmelo Calzerano

Date: 06:51:17 02/02/01

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On February 02, 2001 at 06:44:47, Andreas Herrmann wrote:

>If i work with exact- and upper bounds, sometimes my program Holmes spends the
>opponent a figure.

Do you mean "gives pieces away", I guess?

>If i only use lower bounds, this never happens.
>What could be the reason for this?

A bug, of course... :)

Are you sure you store/retrieve the depth (draft) correctly? Maybe you store
wrong drafts in the hash table, or retrieve them incorrectly... This could
happen in case of search extensions or razoring, for example.
Just an idea...
:-)

Bye,
Carmelo



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