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Subject: Re: Hash Table/Best Move

Author: Andrew Williams

Date: 02:10:09 07/29/03

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On July 29, 2003 at 04:06:51, Rick Bischoff wrote:

>On July 29, 2003 at 03:48:29, Dann Corbit wrote:
>
>>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.
>
>Sorry for not including this earlier.  There are two hash tables, one for white
>one for black, each with 2^22 entries.

The best thing to do is to pick a position (eg the opening position). Search it
to a particular depth (eg 10 or 11). Then post the figures you get. Everyone
else can then check to see exactly what they get. Perhaps do the same with an
early endgame position.

Cheers

Andrew



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