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Subject: Re: "Parallel chess searching and bitboards"

Author: Gerd Isenberg

Date: 02:23:46 09/18/04

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On September 18, 2004 at 04:26:55, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:

>On September 18, 2004 at 03:39:00, Gerd Isenberg wrote:
>
>
>>About the Issue "Parallel Chess Searching with Bitboards", i have the same
>>problem as others to get David's point, what makes the board representation or
>>it's additional size of 17 bitboards so unique while splitting nodes?
>
>This *is* explained in the paper: more overhead on a split.
>
>(I don't really agree, btw ;-)

You mean chapter 6.4, Splitting with BitBoards?
...
"This means that we have to transfer 136 Bytes more than with simple
representation."

>
>>What is the difference between David's lockless hashing approach and Bob
>>Hyatt's? Isn't it the same xor idea?
>>http://www.cis.uab.edu/hyatt/hashing.html
>
>It's the same (and it's properly attributed).

Yes.

6.5.1 second paragraph:

"A recent idea [11], and the idea we use..."

looks like there are similar but somehow diffent ideas to me.

Gerd

>
>--
>GCP



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