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Subject: Re: hashtable

Author: Dan Honeycutt

Date: 17:07:58 05/11/04

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On May 11, 2004 at 10:26:44, James Swafford wrote:

>On May 11, 2004 at 09:55:42, Jeff GAZET wrote:
>
[snip]
>
>I think you misunderstood my question: I wasn't asking "why store
>moves?" as a general question- but specifically for this case.
>Keep in mind there are (at least) two main uses for hash tables:
>to store scores (bounds or exact) and to store moves, presumably
>to help with move ordering.  In this case, if you are going to
>do a hash insert, you simply don't have a move to store, so
>don't try to come up with one.
>

I try.  If the position is already in the table with less depth, but with a
move, I salvage the old move.  I figure something is better than nothing.

Dan H.



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