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Subject: Re: Mate in 16? ..see if your computer will solve it!

Author: Ernst Walet

Date: 13:11:34 02/17/01

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On February 17, 2001 at 15:37:48, Ernst Walet wrote:

>On February 17, 2001 at 10:38:10, Carl Cox wrote:
>
>>
>>>On February 16, 2001 at 20:48:49, Carl Cox wrote:
>>
>>>>My machine PIII - 500
>>>>Chessmaster 8000 - Transposition Table = 32MB
>>>>#16 on 2:36
>>
>>>On February 17, 2001 at 02:36:56, Ernst Walet wrote:
>>
>>>I used a hastable of 128MB, that seems more important than a clean boot to me.
>>
>>How can you justify that when you had #16 at 6:32 ?
>>
>>Try the same test with 32MB hash, but first disable everything that gets
>>activated at startup (esp. those resource guzzling background virus scanners)
>>and reboot.
>>Let me know the *improved* results........
>>
>>CC
>
>I think I misunderstood you, I thought that you meant that the first mate
>announcement was at 2:36, as response to my message 154843.  Apparentely you
>meant mate #16 in that time.
>
>I did not have anything running in the backgrond.
>
>Ernst.


One VERY important thing I forgot about is that I used a Selective Search
setting of 12, my default setting.  That could be the main cause of our time
difference.

Ernst.



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