Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 19:49:34 10/16/99
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On October 16, 1999 at 22:04:33, Nicolas Carrasco wrote: >Dear Guys, > >I guess how are Binary book formats, can anybody explain me with "1"s and "0"s >this? > >Does it use a binary tree? How? Any website with explanation? > >Really Thanks :) most usually store a hash signature... then you make a move, look it up in the book, and if you find the hash signature hit, you know that move is a book move. You can treat the book file as a disk=resident hash table and probe it once for each move, or you can use the scheme in crafty (explanation in book.c) to avoid doing more than one I/O to locate all known book moves for a single book position...
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