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Subject: Re: How to use hashtable for bishops?

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 15:15:45 12/09/01

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On December 09, 2001 at 17:55:43, Pham Minh Tri wrote:

>On December 09, 2001 at 10:37:30, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>On December 09, 2001 at 06:21:37, Pham Minh Tri wrote:
>>
>>>Someone told me that he used hashtable for bishops, but I do not understand how
>>>to do (unlike pawns, I found there was too little information to save for
>>>hashtable). Could someone explain to me or show me where to download the source
>>>code. Many thanks in advance.
>>
>>
>>You could, in theory, use special purpose hash tables for any evaluation
>>component that is costly to compute.  The danger is that this can become
>>very memory-intensive...
>
>Yes, but how? :)


Just compute a hash signature based only on the locations of bishops.
And use that to index a hash table that only has bishop scores in it...



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