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Subject: Re: SCSI and chess program speed

Author: Komputer Korner

Date: 20:40:19 05/25/98

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On May 25, 1998 at 21:40:30, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On May 25, 1998 at 18:19:37, Moritz Berger wrote:
>
>>On May 25, 1998 at 18:04:37, Robert Sullivan wrote:
>>
>>>Does the ultra-wide SCSI hard drive provide any advantage over non-SCSI
>>>in terms of chess program speed?
>>>Robert
>>
>>no.
>
>yes... *if* you use endgame databases, and those databases are probed
>deep in the search...  Otherwise, no help at all...
>
>I use UW SCSI with Crafty for the endgame databases..

Slight correction to the above 2 responses. Yes, if you are stupid
enough to normally allow hard disk swapping for the hash
table:))))))))))))



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