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Subject: Re: Position Storage

Author: Tord Romstad

Date: 04:16:20 12/23/03

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On December 23, 2003 at 03:48:52, Peter Schäfer wrote:

>What you may be asking is "how do you store a position in a hash table ?"
>Engines use hash keys of 8 bytes.

Many engines use less than 8 bytes.  8, 6 or 4 bytes are most common, but I
know at least one engine which uses (or used?) only 3 bytes.

Tord

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