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Subject: Re: Hash Table/Best Move

Author: Randall Shane

Date: 10:23:13 07/30/03

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On July 30, 2003 at 13:09:32, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>
>I don't like the "illegal move" issue.  How can you possibly store an illegal
>move in the hash table?
>
>You have a good move to store if you back up a score that is > alpha, which
>might mean you are backing up a PV, or a fail-high.  You don't have a good
>move if you are backing up alpha, because _every_ move failed low and there is
>no way to know which is best...
>
>But storing an illegal move is something that should not happen.  If you back
>up alpha, set the hash move to zero.

Hash collisions, maybe?




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