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Subject: Re: Fritz5 and memory

Author: Ernst A. Heinz

Date: 01:54:55 05/29/98

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On May 29, 1998 at 04:42:06, Ernst A. Heinz wrote:
>
>The long-standing rule of thumb in the computer-chess literature
>states that each doubling of hash-table size gives you about
>7% better performance (see e.g. Hsu's Ph.D. thesis).

Forgot to mention that this only holds *on average*, of course.

With just a small sample of positions anything can happen, i.e.
you need at least hundreds of positions to really test the
influence of hash-table size on "Fritz5" performance.

=Ernst=



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