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Subject: Re: Question about opening book+hash key?

Author: Pham Minh Tri

Date: 05:55:15 05/24/01

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On May 24, 2001 at 08:14:37, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:

>On May 24, 2001 at 07:50:32, Pham Minh Tri wrote:
>
>>Hi,
>>I heard that the hash technique could apply to opening book. Could someone
>>explain to me how to use and what is the benefit?
>>Thank very much in advance,
>>Pham
>
>Quite simple. Instead of storing positions or sequences you store
>the hashes of the positions.
>
>The benefit is space. If you were storing sequences you will also
>spot transpotions now.
>

Could you explain more detail? I still do not understand. The 64 bit hash key is
always bigger than 16 bit of a move representation, and the random numbers may
make the hash key after moving totally different from the old one, so how to
save space?

And another question: does this technique need more computing (to match and
extract) than the normal technique (use other kind of database)?

Thanks,

>--
>GCP



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