Author: John Merlino
Date: 10:41:41 04/12/01
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On April 12, 2001 at 11:58:05, Paul Doire wrote: >On April 12, 2001 at 11:23:00, John Merlino wrote: > >>On April 12, 2001 at 07:07:47, Daniel Chancey wrote: >> >>>Could you explain the problem of hash clearing again? >>> >>>Castle2000 >> >>First, you should know that the problem will go away with the next (and final) >>patch. >> >>Second, it's pretty simple. The hash table is cleared out at the beginning of >>every search. On my PIII-600, it took about 1/2 second (by my VERY ROUGH >>estimations) to clear a 32MB hash table. Therefore, in a G/5 that goes 80 moves >>(for example) a Chessmaster personality with a 32MB hash table will lose 40 >>seconds on its clock for nothing, since 31MB of the hash table is completely >>wasted. >> >>jm > >Hi John, >Interestingly enough,CM Default doesn't do as well against GT-2 >on same pc matches. However CM KKND 32H does defeat GT-2 and CM Default at least >50-60% of the time (entertainment games only... OK cruel posters). >Do you think that somehow the custom personality CM KKND 32H clears it's hash >tables better than Default? It doesn't make sense but the results seem to make >it appear that way.Why else would CM KKND have better results? > >Thanks for your time, >Paul Unknown, since I do not have enough information to answer the question. Are we still talking about G/5 games? How many games have been played and what's the actual tally (W/L/D)? Didn't your other post say that the default soundly beat KKND? I'm confused.... jm
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