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Subject: Re: Sometimes they go 'boom'

Author: John Merlino

Date: 15:18:07 09/20/02

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On September 20, 2002 at 18:00:48, Tony Werten wrote:

>On September 20, 2002 at 16:45:28, John Merlino wrote:
>
>>On September 20, 2002 at 16:37:38, Will Singleton wrote:
>>
>>>On September 20, 2002 at 16:23:53, John Merlino wrote:
>>>
>>>>>1:52	13/17	-1.54	11346643	1...Ba4 2.Bd1 Kd3 3.e5 Kd2 4.Bf3
>>>>>					Kc2 5.e6 Kxb2 6.Kg4 Kc1 7.Be4 b2
>>>>>					8.Kh4 Bc6 9.Bd3 b1=Q 10.Bxb1 Kxb1
>>>>>3:58	14/18	-1.56	23785267	1...Ba4 2.Bd1 Kd3 3.e5 Kd2 4.Bf3
>>>>>					Kc2 5.e6 Kxb2 6.Kg3 Kc1 7.Be4 b2
>>>>>					8.Kh4 Bc6 9.Bd3 b1=Q 10.Bxb1 Kxb1
>>>>>					11.Kg4
>>>>>
>>>
>>>>Here's what my wonderful new P4-2.66 says:
>>>>
>>>>0:24	13/17	-1.56	9124305		1...Ba4 2.Bd1 Kd3 3.e5 Kd2 4.Bf3
>>>>					Kc2 5.Be4+ Kxb2 6.e6 Kc1 7.Kg4
>>>>					b2 8.Kh4 Bc6 9.Bd3 b1=Q 10.Bxb1
>>>>					Kxb1 11.Kg4
>>>>0:42	14/18	-1.56	16053836	1...Ba4 2.Bd1 Kd3 3.e5 Kd2 4.Bf3
>>>>					Kc2 5.e6 Kxb2 6.Kg3 Kc1 7.Be4 b2
>>>>					8.Kh4 Bc6 9.Bd3 b1=Q 10.Bxb1 Kxb1
>>>>					11.Kg4
>>>
>>>Why are the node counts different?
>>
>>Because I'm stupid.... Well, not exactly -- let's just say I confused myself.
>>
>>We are working on a French version of Chessmaster, so I re-installed the program
>>and the user that I logged in as was using the default of 4MB hash table size
>>for the PIII-600 version, instead of the 32MB I used for the P4-2.66 version.
>>Here is what the PIII-600 says with 32MB of hash (same node count, but
>>noticeably faster than the 2MB version):
>>
>
>I'm sorry, did you just say CM got faster from more hashtable ?
>
>I'm confused now.
>
>Tony

Yes, I did. Why are you confused?

jm



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