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Subject: Re: Q: about hashing...

Author: GBes

Date: 12:40:52 07/23/99

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On July 23, 1999 at 11:42:07, Scott Gasch wrote:

>Hi.
>
>I have implemented hashing (transposition) tables based on crafty's code and
>some posts about it here.  It makes sense and works very well... but I am having
>trouble with one aspect of it.
>
>In a position where the side on move has a very good move (promote a pawn,
>capture a queen, etc) I am hitting the hash table at every depth of my search
>and the table is returning a bound instead of an exact score.  This happens, for
>example, on plys 1 through 6.  The program then begins to search ply 7 but runs
>out of time.  Since plys 1-6 were bounds from the hash, I have no move at this
>point.

Don't know if i understand well your problem...(still struggling with hashtables
too)
Seems to me that every hit to the hashtable should you give a SCORE ( exact
lower upper worthless ) plus *always* an associated move, even if the score is
just a bound. this works for me.

good luck,
gerrit bes



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