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Subject: Re: Pawn Hash Tables -- Thank you Dr. Hyatt!

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 05:24:14 01/07/04

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On January 06, 2004 at 19:41:34, Ed Trice wrote:

>Hello Dr. Hyatt,
>
>I just wanted to report that adding pawn hash tables to the Gothic Chess program
>results in a noticeable speedup of the search! This was such a great idea! I
>used 25% of the hash table memory for the pawns (color independent) and it works
>great!
>
>Interesting that the main hash table reduces the size of the game tree very
>well, and pawn hash tables (imagine the payoff for my board with 20 pawns)
>functionally speed up the search.
>
>Thanks again!


Remember that this wasn't my idea.  It has been around for a long time, and
I'm not sure _who_ originally came up with it...

• Re: Pawn Hash Tables -- Thank you Dr. Hyatt! Ed Trice 05:52:46 01/07/04
  • Re: Pawn Hash Tables -- Thank you Dr. Hyatt! Antonio Dieguez 07:35:35 01/08/04
    • Re: Pawn Hash Tables -- Thank you Dr. Hyatt! Ed Trice 16:33:24 01/08/04
  • Re: Pawn Hash Tables -- Thank you Dr. Hyatt! Robert Hyatt 06:43:40 01/07/04

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