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Subject: Re: mtd/pvs hybrid?

Author: Pat King

Date: 09:53:03 08/29/01

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On August 29, 2001 at 08:58:41, Andrew Williams wrote:

>On August 29, 2001 at 08:25:26, Pat King wrote:
>>Yes, of course Zotron tests the legality of hash moves within the search. My
>>assumption has been that the hash entry for the root position must always be
>>valid, and this is the way I've passed my engine's move back to the calling
>>functions. Works 99.999% of the time, and fails spectacularly 0.001% of the
>>time. I've had a devil of a time catching that 0.001%.
>>
>>Pat
>
>Ahhh. I see. Mine also uses the hash table to construct its PV.
>
>Did you catch your error?
>
>Andrew

I can't reproduce it consistently, which is what caused me to come up w/ the
mtd/pvs idea, using the pv[][] structure to bypass the hash. Nobody seems to
think it's a good idea for performance. I haven't yet decided if it might be
useful for debugging.

Pat



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