Author: Inmann Werner
Date: 13:11:37 09/21/99
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On September 20, 1999 at 12:14:10, Bruce Cleaver wrote: >Here's an idea: many programs include a pawn-only hash table, and the hit rates >on it are quite high. Since the bishop evaluation in any postion is strongly >coupled to the type of pawn structure (bishop + many pawns on same color is >generally a negative, for example), you might save computation time by putting >these together. The pawn-only tables would then be a subset of the pawn-bishop >hash tables (those pawn-bishop positions without any bishops). > >Other pieces aren't nearly so coupled to the pawns (rook, knight, etc.). Do you think really? I think, that the rooks positions have much to do with the pawns. Open Files, defending pawn, attacking .... Werner > >Bruce
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