Author: Paul Doire
Date: 11:14:14 04/12/01
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On April 12, 2001 at 13:41:41, John Merlino wrote: >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 Hi John, Thanks for replying, My other post entitled "CM8K personality tourney results-120 games" G/5 The results were for the top two as follows : CMKKND 32H +10=8-6 14 CM Default +7=12-6 13 although overall score was within one, I thought CM KKND 32H win ratio was more impressive than CM Defaults, and it does much better against GT-2.
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