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Subject: Re: How to use hashtable for bishops?

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 05:11:39 12/10/01

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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...

I did some years ago bishop hashtable.

hash pawnstructure with bishop in question and store that. Real easy
and cheap. Looking it up in hashtable is like 200 clocks or so. Real
cheap.





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