Author: Jouni Uski
Date: 04:18:59 12/13/01
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On December 12, 2001 at 15:41:02, john rice wrote: >Hello, >Since larger hashtables increase playing strength, isn't it safe to assume >increasing the tablebase cache would do the same? With 512m of ram available, I >usually set the hashtable size of Fritz 7 to 128 or 256m, yet the default >tablebase cache is only 2m. With all 3,4,5 and some 6 piece endgame tablebases >it would seem 2m of cache would be a huge slowdown/bottleneck during the >endgame. Any thoughts? >Thanks, >JR I think bigger is always better here. In my 450Mhz PC and 600MB TBs (3 + 4 some 5 piece ones) I use 16MB. In many endgame positions after one minute search cache seems to be filled and there is not much harddisk operations after that. Jouni
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