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Subject: Re: Another funky hash problem

Author: Bruce Moreland

Date: 22:34:42 08/24/99

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On August 25, 1999 at 00:01:28, Jon Dart wrote:

>You may have multiple problems, but one of them is that you
>should not adjust a mate score from the hash table unless the
>node type is EXACT.

Icky.  This could cause strange things, couldn't it?  How do you store >= mate
in 3 and have it make any sense, since the bound information is variable
depending upon the number of moves between here and the root of the search?

Why not just convert all mate scores to bounds and be done with the whole
problem?

bruce



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