Repetition-Zugzwang

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Re: Repetition-Zugzwang

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hgm wrote:In Joker I make explicit effort to keep scores that are contaminated by rep-draws out of the table.
How do you do that?
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Re: Repetition-Zugzwang

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I only count second repeats (third occurrence) as draw, but do not store any score in the hash table between the first and second repeat.