Author: rait
Date: 01:50:36 06/10/03
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On June 09, 2003 at 19:08:46, John Merlino wrote: >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 Sorry but how to change hash table size? Rait
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