Author: John Merlino
Date: 16:08:46 06/09/03
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On June 09, 2003 at 15:32:30, John Larsen wrote: >Page 16 of the Chessmaster manual says that the larger the memory for >transposition tables the stronger and faster the play. Yet the default setting >for the Chessmaster personality is only 2mb. Does anyone know it this is >optimum? This is probably NOT the optimum. In general, the longer the average thinking time for the engine to make a move, the larger the hash table should be. 32MB should be more than enough for all games, unless you are planning on also doing lengthy analysis. Also, the manual is misleading in this regard. Making the hash table larger can certainly speed up the search, which can then make the program play a little better. It will not necessarily make the program "play faster". And, actually, I think the default for the Chessmaster personality is 4MB. jm
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