Author: Luis Smith
Date: 13:59:27 05/10/03
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On May 10, 2003 at 15:07:55, Peter Stayne wrote: >The more RAM you give it for hash over what it needs, the slower it will >perform. > >Take a look at the manual page 18. 380 is way overboard. it says 4-12MB is good >for blitz. 100MB for 3 minute/move tournament games. if you take an average of >60 moves in a game, that's a 3 hour timelimit game. > >Set it for 64 if you plan on playing blitz a lot, or 128 for tournament games. >anything more will indeed slow it down. > >I'm not sure actually why it slows it down, anybody know exactly? > >pete The engine spends all its time searching through all the hash, when it would be faster to recalculate the moves. I'm not sure thats right, but its my guess
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