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Subject: Re: The key of pawn hash tables is based on what exactly?

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 12:44:03 09/06/03

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On September 06, 2003 at 13:47:24, Uri Blass wrote:

>pawns are obvious but the question is if you store also
>1)side to move
>2)king squares
>
>both 1 and 2 may be important for evaluation of unstoppable passed pawns.
>
>Uri


The simple rule is this.  The signature must be based on the locations of
_all_ pieces that influence the score.  If king position is important to
your scoring, then king location has to be hashed in...




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