The only way this might help is in the opening or in very nearly symmetrical positions and this is really rare. The possible slight benefit would be canceled by even a very small slowdown.
It would be useful on small boards as an opening book however where exact positions (or hashes) are stored. - Don Chris Fant wrote: > As Gunnar pointed out, you may not need the canonical hash at all. I > think you only need to compute the canonical hash if you are matching > to some game-external hash, such as a fuseki or pattern library. If > you are just using it for transposition and super-ko checking, no > board rotation will have occurred. > _______________________________________________ > computer-go mailing list > computer-go@computer-go.org > http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/ > > _______________________________________________ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/
