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Subject: Re: questions about dynamically updating attackboards

Author: Tord Romstad

Date: 08:18:03 08/24/03

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On August 24, 2003 at 07:35:12, Sune Fischer wrote:

>Hmm you have not understood completely how the table works I think.
>As Uri also did point out, a table lookup for SEE doesn't work with this ploy.
>
>I'm not sure such a table can even be constructed, one could compute the number
>of bits theoreticly required by a crafty type SEE.
>I suspect such a table would be huge.

If implemented as an array, definitely.  But perhaps it is worth trying to use
some kind
of hash table to cache the results?  I haven't investigated this, but my guess
is that
the number of combinations of attackers which occur in the search tree from a
given
root position is usually not very big.

Tord



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