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Subject: Re: Hash Tables and Draw50/Rep3

Author: Steve Maughan

Date: 04:13:23 06/06/05

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Andrew,

One technique which could adds some value is to never do a hash cut-off at a PV
node (i.e. when alpha != beta - 1); and start to pull the evaluation closer to a
draw score when evaluating i.e. taking the 50 move rule into account.  Since
there will not be a hash cutoff at a PV node, the PV and it's score will not be
polluted by the invalid hash scores.  One effect may be a somewhat unstable
search i.e. the PV score may start to approach zero and you may get quite a few
fail highs for other moves that fail low on a research but this is probably a
price worth paying.

Steve



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