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Subject: Re: Couple of chess programming questions

Author: Jesper Antonsson

Date: 15:29:02 09/10/02

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On September 10, 2002 at 13:40:54, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>On September 10, 2002 at 09:26:14, Eli Liang wrote:
>>>(7) Dennis Breuker has a paper comparing 5 different transposition table
>>replacement schemes.  Has any else been able to validate his results that
>>replacement should be based on the number of nodes searched and not search
>>depth?
>
>Hard to say.  The issue will become hash entry size.  You can store "depth" in
>a byte.  You will need at least 4 (and really more) bytes for nodes searched.
>Your table will therefore be smaller, and _that_ effect was not measured.

Just a simple thought: You can store the logarithm of nodes searched, i.e.
1024-2047 nodes make you store 10, 4096 => 12 and so on. Perhaps good enough,
and 5 or 6 bits should suffice.

/Jesper



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