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Subject: Re: Books

Author: Peter McKenzie

Date: 14:03:59 04/20/99

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On April 20, 1999 at 11:00:08, James Robertson wrote:

>I have become dissatisfied with the way my program searches for moves in it's
>book; it simply takes too long. How do other programs do this? If I look at the
>Crafty bookmaking code, I see stuff about "clusters". What does this mean? How
>do EXchess, or Comet or other programs search their books?

LambChop just has a bunch of positions in a hash table in memory.  Access is
super fast, but probably not a great method if your book is huge (mine most
definitely isn't).

>
>Thanks for any help!
>James

Peter



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