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Subject: Re: levers and pawnhash hit-rate

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 16:10:58 11/15/04

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On November 15, 2004 at 18:30:02, Wayne Lowrance wrote:

>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 ?

http://members.aol.com/manusfealy2/ch18.htm
http://chess.about.com/od/reference/qt/bltip022.htm
http://info.ex.ac.uk/~dregis/DR/glossary.html
http://www.chess-dictionary-chesmayne.net/Glossary%20P.htm



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