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Subject: Re: More ChessMaster 8000 info

Author: James T. Walker

Date: 06:51:52 12/07/00

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On December 06, 2000 at 23:21:28, William Penn wrote:

>On December 06, 2000 at 09:54:24, James T. Walker wrote:
>
>>I've been playing Chessmaster (1 Meg hash) vs Chessmaster (16/32M hash)
>>overnight at game/25 minutes to compare the advantage of using 16/32 meg hash
>>tables vice the default of 1 meg.  The CM8K/16M won by 28-24 and the CM8K/32M
>>won by 30-22 for a combined 58-46.  The same settings at Game/5 minutes produced
>>a win for the default CM8K of 104.5-95.5.
>>There is a bug in the Chessmaster which causes it to lose on time ocasionally
>>when the game is a draw by repetition.  You have to check the "games" after all
>>matches and when you see a "black/white lost on time" message then you need to
>>check the game because it usually is a 3 time draw in which neither side claimed
>>the draw but one side stopped playing and it's clock ran out.
>>I'm also playing a match between Chessmaster vs Rebel Century 3.0 (G/1hour).
>>After 20 games Chessmaster is winning by 13-7.  I will stop this match at 24
>>games and return to Chessmaster vs Chess Tiger 13.  Anyone wanting the PGN of
>>the Rebel games just email me.
>>Jim
>
>I've done many tests with different hash table sizes in CM6000, and a few with
>CM8000. Larger hash table sizes have more effect at longer time controls. The
>default 1MB hash table size is probably as good as any at fast time controls.
>Also I've found that the hash table size generally doesn't have a big effect,
>maybe on the order of a 10%-20% speedup at best. For those who need really
>significant speedups, then higher MHz processors are the way to get it.
>WP

Hello William,
In the middle game you are right but try the difference in the endgames with
only a few pawns on the board and you will see sometimes 3 ply difference.
Jim



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