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Subject: Re: books and final final final explanations

Author: Bruce Moreland

Date: 09:19:50 09/14/98

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On September 14, 1998 at 10:24:19, Moritz Berger wrote:

>A more serious issue was when I checked the move 18.Qd3 (in fact I only check
>this one move!) and Fritz 5.03 (engine Fritz500.eng, modified March 14th 1998
>17:08:50), 106.496 byte file size) never even considered it within 30 minutes on
>PII-400 with 44032 KB hash tables (AFAIR the setting that Thorsten used). White
>had an advantage but strangely drew against M-Chess. Maybe Thorsten's beloved K6
>processor is to blame for the anomaly (not 100% compatible with Intel chips), I
>don't know. This can be verified if he posts his engine date, file size and
>exact hash table settings.

Probably not the chip.  You would expect incompatibilities to result in crashed
software, not different selection of chess moves.

If you use a different version, or a different hash table size, you may see play
that is different on an individual move.  Both versions "consider" the move, but
one selects a different move early on and sticks with it.

bruce



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