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Subject: Re: Yes something is wrong there!

Author: Enrique Irazoqui

Date: 06:10:19 12/14/00

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On December 14, 2000 at 08:15:47, Laurence Chen wrote:

>On December 14, 2000 at 04:33:27, Ingo Bauer wrote:
>
>>On December 14, 2000 at 03:14:42, Uri Blass wrote:
>>
>>>On December 13, 2000 at 21:29:50, Laurence Chen wrote:
>>>
>>>>I tested Shredder 5 against Gambit Tiger using two Pentium III 600e computers,
>>>>time control 40'/40.  Shredder had 128 MB Hash Table, with 32 MB Cache for
>>>>Tablebases (5 men tbs), and Gambit Tiger had 96 MB of Hash Table. The 20 game
>>>>match final score was:
>>>>S5   W+5 D=7 L-8  8.5/20
>>>>GT   W+8 D=7 L-5  11.5/20
>>
>>>Something here seems to be wrong.
>>>
>>>Are you sure that shredder5 can get only to depth 6 after 42 seconds?
>>>
>>>I see no way to see +6.71 at depth 6 unless the program is similiar to crafty
>>>and even Crafty can avoid 40.a5 at bigger depthes and it takes crafty less than
>>>a second to get bigger depthes on p200.
>>>
>>
>>Yes you are right. Something is wrong!!!!!
>>On my Celeron 855 S5 shows on the 40th move imediately a depth of ->9<-. After
>>42 seconds S5 is on 15/27 and want to play f5 with a score of -0.22.
>>
>>Bye Ingo Bauer
>Alright then, I'll run another 20 games match with 96 MB Hash Table.  Hope this
>will solve the problem.  I find strange that 128 MB Hash can cause this type of
>side effect.  I have 320 MB of RAM, running Windows ME.

128 MB hash should be fine. Maybe you had Shredder playing with the multimedia
stuff on, or Windows ME was doing maintenance tasks in the background. Either
one seems more likely to have caused this problem than a 128MB hashtable size on
your machine.

Enrique

>Regards,
>Laurence



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