Author: martin fierz
Date: 02:09:35 06/15/01
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On June 15, 2001 at 02:40:15, Dann Corbit wrote: >Suppose that you have a chessboard represented as 64 characters, and you want to >make a hash from it. This works well, if you make a 64 bit hash by hashing the >first 32 characters and then the second 32 characters to make two 32 bit chunks. > It was quite a bit faster than Zobrist hashing. On the other hand, it cannot >be used to do incremental updates, so you might be sorry you used it if you >decide to go that route. one of the best checkers programs (kingsrow by ed gilbert) uses this hash function. ed wrote me once that this was faster than zobrist. i have never tried it myself. cheers martin
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