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Subject: Re: Hashing in distributed perft

Author: Russell Reagan

Date: 22:24:27 12/18/03

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On December 19, 2003 at 01:00:31, Steffen Jakob wrote:

>I repeat my posting from below because the ruffian thread pushed it very fast to
>the bottom of the message list. :)
>
>What are you using for the hash key in your distributed perft implementation?
>How do you make sure that there are no hash key collisions which are possible in
>the usual zobrist key approach? Those collisions are too rare to influence the
>playing strength of a chess engine but would make the result of your perft
>project invalid.

I remember Albert saying that he uses 128-bit hash keys, which is not
theoretically sound, but should work in practice. Deiter also uses hash tables
for this I think. Maybe he can tell us what he does.



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