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Subject: Re: Fine #70 and hash bug(s) (warning: long post)

Author: Andrew Wagner

Date: 10:01:25 04/19/04

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On April 19, 2004 at 11:48:46, Dan Honeycutt wrote:

>Hi Andrew:
>Misery loves company.  Bruja's output looks just about like Trueno's and it
>insists that Kb2 is the move.  I tried the position with Crafty and Pepito and
>both lock on to Kb1! almost immediately.  Like you I'm 99.9 percent sure my keys
>are good and I've also tried a larger table to no avail.  I think Martin in the
>post below is right - we're doing something wrong with the way we store or use
>the bounds.  In the source code of Pepito in the file hash.c i found a #ifdef
>DEBUG_HASHING in the hash store routine.  Soon as I have time i'm going to try
>this.  Looks like what he does with the debug code is make a probe when he does
>a store and check for consistency.  If you look at the code it will help to know
>a little Spanish:
>
>Deberia ser = what (the values) should be
>Sin embargo = what, however, they are
>prof = depth
>tipo = type/flag
>
>Good luck.  Let me know what you find and I'll do the same.
>Dan H.

Hi Dan. Well, at least I don't feel _quite_ as dumb then, knowing someone else
has the same problem. Did you base your code on Pepito's? Do you know where I
might possibly get a copy of it? I speak some spanish, so it would be
interesting to see anyway. See my post above for how I handle bounds. Andrew



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