Author: James T. Walker
Date: 04:32:29 04/11/02
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On April 11, 2002 at 01:01:06, Steve Lopez wrote: >On April 10, 2002 at 18:24:40, James T. Walker wrote: > >>Hello Steve, >>How long ago did you get this info?? I believe it was valid for Fritz 5 but I >>now have over 700 games at G/2minutes with Fritz 7 using 256M with no apparent >>decrease in strength. > >The confirmation on the formula was early last month. As I indicated in my >previous post, I *assume* that the possibility of disk swapping is at least part >the reason why the programmers still suggest using the formula to determine hash >table size. I'm not a programmer myself, and in any event don't have access to >the "guts" of the Fritz program to see its inner workings, so I can't do much >more than make educated guesses as to why the formula is still recommended. > >-- Steve Lopez > >------------------------------------------------- >The Chess Kamikaze Home Page: http://www.geocities.com/ludekdudek/ >The Chess Kamikaze Club: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/chesskamikazes/ Well if you got it from ChessBase then it's not very reliable. If you got it from FM then I would question him as to why. In the face of over 700 games with no apparent decrease in strength, you would have to be very stubborn to stick to the story. A formula will not prevent disk swapping unless it takes into account the total computer memory so it's a very poor excuse. Jim
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