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Subject: Re: Interesting Position

Author: Peter McKenzie

Date: 19:06:46 09/01/00

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On September 01, 2000 at 16:39:27, Ernst A. Heinz wrote:

>Hi Peter,
>
>>>"DarkThought WCCC'99" behaves similarly (fail low in iteration 13
>>>with horrible branching factor) but searches much fewer nodes
>>>overall (roughly 70% less).
>>
>>Interesting that for depth 11 our scores practically agreed but I used much less
>>nodes than you.  Then my search went really crazy!
>>
>>My hash table was only 10mb, not sure if this had much impact.
>>I'm planning on running this again on a computer at work to see how it goes with
>>a bigger hash table.

Damn, i really must get around to doing that

>
>My remark was only an observation and not meant to imply that our
>search outperformed yours -- sorry, if it sounded this way. :-(

Not at all.

>
>I tested with 64MB transposition tables and somehow overlooked
>that "LambChop" searched fewer nodes per iteration up to depth 11.
>I probably misread your 1.7 million nodes as 17 million ...
>
>>BTW, I ordered your book last week, looking forward to reading it!
>
>Please enjoy!

I plan to, just have to find the time to read it!

>
>BTW, I am really curious how long delivery of the book takes in
>Australia / New Zealand.

Me too, its been about 10 days so far.

>
>Cheers,
>
>=Ernst=



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