Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 14:30:02 05/31/98
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On May 31, 1998 at 15:34:06, Don Dailey wrote: >>Could you or Don explain what "sticky transposition table" are. >> >> Thanks >> Mark > >An entry that never goes away. You can flag special entries to >never get overwritten for instance. This is often done to track >position repetition in chess programs, all the move history is >flagged "sticky" and draws are scored if a new entry matches >a sticky entry. > >- Don plus things like singular extensions use this... and when a position is declared "singular" it is marked "sticky" (or put in a separate sticky hash table in Deep Blue) and flagged as singular, so it will be treated as singular from now on, to keep the search more consistent...
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