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Subject: Re: Hash Table/Best Move

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 14:10:25 07/30/03

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On July 30, 2003 at 13:23:13, Randall Shane wrote:

>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?


Should hardly _ever_ happen with a 64 bit hash signature.



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