Author: Drexel,Michael
Date: 16:39:14 01/03/03
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On January 03, 2003 at 19:15:03, Uri Blass wrote: >On January 03, 2003 at 18:22:07, Stephen Ham wrote: > >>On January 03, 2003 at 18:15:27, Aloisio Ponti Lopes wrote: >> >>>On January 03, 2003 at 17:57:03, Stephen Ham wrote: >>> >>>>Dear Readers, >>>> >>>>Shredder 7 is advertised to have a "Triple Brain" and the wording suggests it's >>>>an option for us to use. >>>> >>>>Fine, but my Shredder 7 instruction manual doesn't mention anything about it and >>>>neither does the HELP index button and neither do any of the drop-down menu >>>>buttons. >>>> >>>>Do any of you readers know how to activate the "Triple Brain" function? >>> >>>That's a feature for the UCI version of Shredder, not the Chessbase (Fritz-like) >>>GUI. Usually it is an option listed in "Mode" menu. You'll have to choose which >>>engines to load. Try for example Shredder + Ruffian, it seems to be a good >>>combination! >>> >>>A. Ponti >> >>Dear Aloisio, >> >>Thanks for the helpful reply. >> >>What is your experience with the "triple brain" feature, Aloisio? Does it indeed >>make the resulting moves stronger? I imagine that it must divide the total >>allocated RAM by 1/3 each, so that means that there won't be many hashtables >>available for long searches. Does that then mean it's only effective for faster >>time controls? >> >>Thanks in advance for your input. >> >>All the best, >>Stephen > >No > >I never tried it but I think that if it can be effective then it can be >effective only at long time control because at short time control tactics is >more important and 2 engines that run slower are going to see less than one >engine. > >My opinion is that hash tables are not very important and doubling the hash >tables is not supposed to increase the rating by more than 6-7 elo. > >I never tried the tripple brain but I understood that >it may divide the hash only by 2 > >My understanding is that >There are 2 engines that calculates at the same time and the third thing is not >an engine but some small program that decides based on the main lines and the >score to which program to believe when the search is finished. > >I may condsider to try it because I am going to play in a correspondence >tournament that begins in 15.1 as the 6th board of Israel > >I am going to play in the >15th Olympiad - Preliminaries >(2nd Email Olympiad) > >Preliminary Group 3 >(CCO15S3) > >It starts in 15.1 > >It means that I may buy shredder7,Fritz8 and Tiger15 in the near future. hehehe, and who is 'quadruple brain'? movei? Uri? > >Uri
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