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Subject: Re: definition of fh first move

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 17:30:58 09/19/04

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On September 19, 2004 at 18:28:50, Steve Maughan wrote:

>Bob,
>
>>>>...don't count NULL moves & hash hits.
>>>
>>>I, and I think most people, count hash hits.
>>>
>>>Steve
>>
>>
>>How can you?  You haven't searched a move yet so how can you fail high on the
>>first move searched???
>
>OK - to clarify, I read "hash hits" as "hash moves". So I increment if the hash
>move fails high.  I do not increment if the hash probe results in an immediate
>cut-off.
>
>Steve


OK.  That is fine.  you actually searched a move.  The hash table itself can
actually produce a fail high of course, without searching any moves at all, and
those you don't count...




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