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Subject: Re: levers and pawnhash hit-rate

Author: Wayne Lowrance

Date: 15:30:02 11/15/04

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On November 15, 2004 at 16:40:47, Uri Blass wrote:

>On November 15, 2004 at 15:57:23, Gerd Isenberg wrote:
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>i use the difference of weighted pawnbitboards ( 5*whitepawnBB - 3*blackpawnBB )
>>mod 65077 as an index for a 64K entry pawnhash-table. Most often my pawnhash
>>hit-rate is quite ok, > 95% or even 99%. But it seems that a lot of pawn levers
>>decrease my hit-rate due to collisions.
>>
>>With "maximum lever" positions my pawnhash hit-rate is only about 75% after a 30
>>second search on my amd64 2.2GHz box (~80% without eval hashing).
>>
>>I guess a zobrist-key pawn-hashing scheme is better here.
>>Curious about your pawnhash hit-rates with one of the positions below.
>
>I have no pawn hash tables so I have no pawn hash hit rates.
>The only pawn information that I calculate and use is passed pawns,isolated
>pawns and protected passed pawns and I do not know what is pawn levers.
>
>I do not use hash to store the information because I found that pawn hash does
>not change much for me and updating the bitboards incrementally is about the
>same speed as storing the information in hash so I decided to go for the simple
>solution.
>
>Uri

Yea, what the heck is a pawn lever ?
Wayne



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