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Subject: Re: Thoughts about board representations...

Author: Tom Kerrigan

Date: 00:00:01 02/13/00

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On February 12, 2000 at 22:37:50, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>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...

I don't see why the node counts wouldn't be identical.

I mean, it's not like you're just randomly swapping entries in the piece list.
It's all very systematic.

-Tom



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