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Subject: User Question

Author: Bob Durrett

Date: 18:27:58 07/11/03



Suppose the programmer were to deliberately load the hash table with false data
and then start the engine analyzing a given position.  Could the false
information in the hash table cause the engine to produce the wrong move?

Corollary:  Suppose the engine were given 24 hours [or more] to find the correct
move, after the programmer had loaded bogus information into the hash table.
Could it happen that the engine might NEVER find the correct move as a direct
result of incorrect information having been loaded into the hash table?

I would very much appreciate an answer to this.  I am experimenting with
different ways to use the engines in analysis and would like to know whether or
not I am doing anything right.  It would really help to understand the details
of how modern engines use the hash tables. [Maybe different ways for different
engines?]

Thanks in advance,

Bob Durrett



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