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Subject: Re: Pawn hashing without Zobrist keys

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 13:20:22 09/12/03

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On September 12, 2003 at 16:19:11, Omid David Tabibi wrote:

>On September 12, 2003 at 14:13:55, Gerd Isenberg wrote:
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>i never used Zobrist keys for pawn hashing in IsiChess,
>>but 64-bit difference of white and black pawn-bitboards
>>modulus some odd tablesize.
>>
>>Not for speed reasons, but simply because i didn't knew
>>it better a few years ago.
>>
>>Recently i played with some modulus by fixed point
>>approximation methods to get rid of the slow 64-bit mod:
>
>Why do you need the modulus operation?

Because a pawnhash of 2^64 entries is rather large, and
you can't AND since that just means you cancel out part
of the board.

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GCP



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