Author: Daniel Clausen
Date: 03:22:59 10/21/02
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On October 21, 2002 at 05:36:23, Brian Katz wrote: > Here is an interesting experiment involving Hash Table settings. >This was run on a single processor 350MHz Pent II 384 SDRAM with Nalimov 4 disc >Endgame Turbo plus additional downloaded 5 piece endgames and Permanent Brain >turned off. > > For my computer's speed the proper HASH TABLE settings for game 5/12 should be >16 MB. I have found that 32MB has always worked well, however. >As an experiment, since I believe Fritz 7 performs better than Deep-Fritz 7 when >using a single processor (even though Chessbase boasts otherwise, stating that >DF7 is stronger even when usning a single processor). > I raised the Hash Table settings for Fritz 7 to 192 MB as opposed to >Deep-Fritz 7 set at 32 MB Hash. > Surely, 192 should be much too high for such a time control with my processor >speed. Well, Fritz 7 still beat out Deep-Fritz 7 by 5.0-3.0 > >Blitz:5'+12" 0 > > 12345678 >1 Fritz 7 110½011½ 5.0/8 >2 Deep Fritz 7 001½100½ 3.0/8 > > Can anyone please explain this please? *sigh* You don't realize that 8 games are a ridiculous number of games for such an experiment? Why don't people understand that!? It doesn't take a degree in statistics to see that! Throw a coin 8 times, and the result 5-3 won't be that uncommon... Sargon
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