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Perhaps this is worth reporting to Ronald?

Yes it could be changed. I'll keep this issue open and make the update the next time I modify Fathom.

> HSHMAX too low! This should never happen. Do you have a FEN that exhibits this behavior so I can test? Also which version did you use? > I also...

> Just a weak ago I downloaded here Fathom-1.0.zip and used the windows exe tool. Okay that's the problem. It seems the github release is very out-of-date, and the `HSHMAX`...

Sorry about that. The change did require me to check some things, which I never got around to. There is a backlog of changes needed for Fathom that I currently...

That's from Ronald's code. I am not sure what it is for. Probably related to decompression?

In that case we keep it disabled for now.

Yes, I was wondering the same thing myself recently. The move generator code was written a long time ago, even pre-dating the Fathom project, so I am not sure. It...

Hi, I am wondering what is the use case or motivation behind this optimization? I did not consider there was any need to optimize the parse FEN function.

Generating and then (re)parsing FEN strings sounds very inefficient! Would it not be better to generate the bitboards directly? It probably should not be that hard to do.