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Subject: Re: Fritz7 beats DeepFritz7 at 5/12 5.0-3.0 with 192 Hash vs 32 MB Hash ??

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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