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Bruce Morleland has some excellent stuff on his Computer Chess page, including some details on transposition tables that seems useful.

Today was a miserable day for my checkers program. I suspected that some of the cases that were causing me some difficulty in the puzzles that I have attempted to date were caused by some problems with my alphabeta search. To resolve this, I coded up some simpler versions and a simple version of minimax. [...]

I didn’t realize that the data for The Internet Movie Database (IMDb) was available for download as plain text files. Did you? Thanks to the Foxmath blog for pointing this out to me.