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Subject: Re: Sometimes they go 'boom'

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 15:20:56 09/20/02

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On September 20, 2002 at 18:18:07, John Merlino wrote:

>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?

Maybe he was thinking of NPS (which usually goes down) instead of time to
solution, which normally speeds up with more hash.



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