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Subject: Re: Thoughts about board representations...

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 19:37:50 02/12/00

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On February 11, 2000 at 18:10:57, Tom Kerrigan wrote:

>On February 11, 2000 at 14:04:16, Andrew Dados wrote:
>
>>>As for holes in the piece list, I figured you could fill them up:
>>That way your piecelist will not be preserved during search... while it does not
>>have to, it introduces changes into, say, order of generated moves. I am not
>>sure if I want that.
>
>I don't see why that's a big deal. The searches are still deterministic.
>
>-Tom


It isn't really deterministic if you do hashing. Try fine 70 and fiddle with
your move ordering to see this.

But the main thing is that you _must_ be able to produce identical node counts
during testing...



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