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Subject: Re: Hashing and draw by repetition

Author: Peter McKenzie

Date: 01:29:38 08/27/99

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On August 26, 1999 at 03:23:43, Inmann Werner wrote:

>Hello
>
>When I began to implement hashing, I tried to use all "tricks" to avoid draws
>by repetition going into the hash tables, because I thought, this would be very
>bad.
>Yesterday I disabled this code and let also the draw by repetition evals into
>the hash tables, and surprisingly, the program worked better (at the complete
>LCTII Test)
>
>Do you also let "draw by repetition evals" into your hash tables?

In LambChop, I just hash the draws.  I haven't done any testing of this, but I
suspect that not hashing draws by repetition would make little difference.

>
>Werner



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