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Subject: Re: Hash Table/Best Move

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 00:48:29 07/29/03

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On July 29, 2003 at 03:44:42, Rick Bischoff wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>I am getting the following statistic from my program:
>
><pre>
> 0/18      0  1426407 Ke6 h3 Kd5 Rg2 Kc5 h4 Kb5 h5 Ka5 h6 Ka6
>move found: 85570 not found: 118
></pre>
>
>Which means of the 88570 times the hashtable didn't have a good value, it still
>had a  good move to try first; the other 118 times it didnt have a good value,
>it had an illegal move... Is this the kind of percentage you all see in your
>engines?

How big is your hash table?  This will be very important in understanding the
answers.

Imagine (for instance) a hash table with a single entry.  Now, imagine one with
a trillion entries.  You get the picture.




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