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Subject: Re: Gandalf 5 vs Gambit Tiger 2

Author: Kevin Strickland

Date: 07:12:42 01/13/02

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>I will try another possible theory(I do not have gandalf5 so I cannot check it)
>
>Maybe gandalf need time to get used to big hash tables for some reason.
>
>The fact that it does not lose on time even on 1 0 games does not contradict
>this theory because it is possible that gandalf starts by searching 50 knodes
>per second in the first seconds and only after a minute the number of nodes per
>second becomes 300 knodes per second and the time that gandalf needs to get used
>to big hash tables is bigger than the time that it needs to
>get used to small hash tables.
>
>Uri

I can guarantee that is the problem. The hash tables in Gandalf are weird. I
found for all time controls the best hash setting for it under Winboard was
104megs. That is where it was the best. If your playing really quick games like
1 0 drop it to 56megs and all is fine. Anything more and it is just to slow.

I think it is a bug in the program myself.



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