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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