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Subject: Re: trouble getting tt tables working

Author: Bruce Moreland

Date: 08:50:46 03/07/98

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On March 07, 1998 at 01:30:48, Will Singleton wrote:

>My results are unpredictable, something is causing wrong move selection.
> I posted the logic and the pseudo-code in the hope that perhaps someone
>could see a flaw in my understanding of the process.

I have never seen a bug of any sort due to a hash table collision, but I
store 32-bits in the table and use some more bits to index the table.

I expect that if you are having transposition table bugs, that a more
likely source of bugs are simple code defects.

Make sure that the hash keys you're dealing with actually correspond to
reality, and make sure that you didn't put your brain on backwards when
you wrote the part that cuts off based upon hash table entries.

Another suggestion is to seed your random number generator with a fixed
value so you don't get different random numbers each time you run the
program.  You want repeatable behavior, for sure.

bruce



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