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Subject: Re: Hash Errors

Author: Nathan Thom

Date: 19:50:57 01/19/03

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On January 19, 2003 at 22:43:57, Ricardo Gibert wrote:

>On January 19, 2003 at 20:36:55, Nathan Thom wrote:
>
>>What kind of error rates do people here get with their hashing algorithms. I
>>mean, when you check for a position in the hash table, verify they have the same
>>checksum and then find out (through a quick test for a valid move or something)
>>that the position stored is actually different to the current position.
>>
>>I think LittleThought is getting way too many errors, but I cant figure out why.
>>Any thoughts are appreciated.
>
>
>In addition to hashing the move into the signiture, you should also be including
>castling rights, en passant and turn to move. The latter in particular will
>produce lots of unwanted collisions and seems to fit the description of your
>problem.

i do include all that in the hash value - except en passant, i cant figure out a
nice way to do it yet.



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