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Subject: Re: stuffing moves in hashtable

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 06:46:50 12/01/99

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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.

Who did explain you this 'normal method'?

Storing just before you reutrn is what i consider the normal
method.

>Has anyone tried this also?
>Did I miss something in my idea? (don“t think so, cause it works well..)
>Werner



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