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Subject: Re: ECT lookups

Author: Don Dailey

Date: 21:54:58 01/07/99

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On January 08, 1999 at 00:12:22, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On January 08, 1999 at 00:10:33, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>On January 07, 1999 at 19:50:47, Marc wrote:
>>
>>>OOps, I don't think they're called ECT, I forgot the acronym.
>>>
>>>Enhanced Transposition Table Lookups, I think.
>>
>>
>>I'm not sure what this is, can you elaborate?
>
>I think I remember this now.  The idea is that whenever you get to a ply and
>you don't have a good hash move to look at first, try each of the moves, compute
>the new hash key, and see if any of those lead to a hash hit.  If so, try that
>move first...
>
>I never had a lot of good luck with this, but I didn't try real hard
>either.  you need a quick piece of code to compute the new hash keys without
>doing a lot of unnecessary work as well (ie don't use makemove() to do this)


Same story with me.  I did try it, but I didn't try too hard and didn't
find it particularly good or bad.

- Don



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