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Subject: Re: stuffing moves in hashtable

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 19:03:45 11/30/99

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On November 30, 1999 at 18:26:27, Inmann Werner wrote:

>Since some time, I do the following.
>
>when I am in the loop in alpha-beta, trying all moves of a position and find a
>new bestmove I do not stuff it in the hashtable (what others normally do?). I
>look at all moves till all searched or a cutoff occurs. Then I stuff only the
>cutoff or best move in the hash.
>
>Difference is, that i only stuff in hash one time and i do not have a "best move
>so far" in the hashtable.
>In my prog it works some better then the "normal" method.
>
>Has anyone tried this also?
>Did I miss something in my idea? (don“t think so, cause it works well..)
>
>Werner



you are describing what I consider the 'normal'method...  I haven't seen
anybody store each new best move...  just store right before you return from
the current instantiation of Search()...


you



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