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Subject: Re: Hashing anomaly

Author: James Swafford

Date: 05:27:44 09/13/02

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On September 12, 2002 at 23:27:13, Brian Richardson wrote:

>On September 12, 2002 at 22:56:12, James Swafford wrote:
>
>>
>>I'm (still) working with my hash tables, and having quite a time
>>with this one.  I'm hoping someone can explain this behavior:
>>
>>1. In iteration 1, the search returns a score of 15 for move A.
>>2. Naturally, the iteration 2 search begins with move A.  The search
>>   window is set to +/- 1 pawn ==> -85, 115.  (Yes, that's wide,
>>   but that's not the point. :)
>>3. Move A again gets a score of 15 from the depth 2 search.
>>   The search continues, though, and root move B fails high.
>>   Move B is a move that leads to mate in 3 (half moves), so
>>   an extension was triggered (I don't think this is important).
>
>When storing the hashed result, do you hash store the depth when probed before
>extensions?

As of last week, I store the unextended depth.  We probably made that
fix the same day. :)

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--
James



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