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Subject: Re: regular hash key & pawn hash key together--good idea?

Author: Frank Schneider

Date: 05:26:34 09/16/99

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On September 16, 1999 at 04:00:43, Tom Kerrigan wrote:

>If you have a program with 64 bit hash keys, is it a good idea to devote n bits
>to pawns and the rest to pieces and side-to-move?
Hi Tom,

my exerience is that 32 bit are not enough for the pieces and you will
very likely get collisions.

Frank

>
>I was thinking a good balance may be 24 bits for pawns, but I have no data to
>back this up. Does anybody else?
>
>-Tom



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