Author: Andrew Wagner
Date: 15:02:58 04/19/04
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On April 19, 2004 at 15:21:22, Dan Honeycutt wrote: >On April 19, 2004 at 13:01:25, Andrew Wagner wrote: > >>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 > >Hi Andrew: >Pepito you can find at: > >http://www.winboardengines.de/pepito/ > >Pepito uses a two-part table with different replacement schemes which appears >very similar to what Crafty does. I use a more simple single table based on >what Bruce Moreland gives on his site: > >http://www.seanet.com/~brucemo/topics/topics.htm > >I figured by keeping it simple it would be more likely to work :( >I saw your post above. I'm at work (yes, my priorities are screwed up) LOL >and will look to see what I do when I get home. > >Dan H. Thanks for the link. I also (attempt to) adhere to the KISS principle. I always tell myself "Keep It Simple, Stupid". Sometimes it works, sometimes I manage to screw it up anyway.
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