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Subject: Re: To compress hashtable size?

Author: Bruce Moreland

Date: 13:46:33 07/14/01

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On July 14, 2001 at 14:23:15, Miguel A. Ballicora wrote:

>I won't have that problem since MATE is 32000 (just paranoia to be so close to
>32767) in my program but I am curious why you would have overflow problems if
>MATE should be the maximum possible value? Is it because of the way you adjust
>the mate values?

You shouldn't have problems but it's something to consider.

Back when ints were 16 bits, I had my MATE value too close to 32767, and when I
got a mate value back from the search, and went to search the next ply with the
window centered upon that score, score + window caused an overflow.

bruce



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