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Subject: Re: YACE vs SJeng G/30 WOW ! WHAT A DIFFERENCE , W-12 D1 L0 !

Author: Jorge Pichard

Date: 05:47:16 04/23/02

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On April 23, 2002 at 08:30:28, Günther Simon wrote:

>On April 23, 2002 at 07:49:10, mike schoonover wrote:
>
>>could it be a problem with pondering.
>>gromit382 is severly handicapped with ponder off?
>>same output 4,5 ply at longer time control.
>>regards
>>mike
>
>No Mike, if you will look again at the FCP Forum you can see
>from the statement of one of Gromits authors (Kai Skibbe) as
>a reply to my post concerning your match that its obviously
>not the pondering issue which caused search depths on your
>machine in 19sec which I reach on a slower machine in 0.22sec :))
>Either it was your setup or the GUI itself which screwed things up.
>BTW you should really update to the newest Arena as you wrote that
>you used the oldest Arena beta ever released ;)
>OTH it seems that Jorge used the newest beta of it in the Yace vs.
>Sjeng match and the same weird searches happened... only other thing
>I can guess is a wrong hastable size for Sjeng as the default is
>_very_ high and one has to change it if Ram is beyond 512MB otherwise
>swapping can slow down the speed of Sjeng a really lot.
>
>Regards,
>Günther

The hashtable size could be the problem if any, since I also noticed that in
several occasion YACE was only reaching depth 4 and 5 too. Anyway, the hashtable
size was set for 24 MB, but it shouldn't be any problem with a 256 SDRAM P.C.

Jorge.



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