Author: John Merlino
Date: 10:36:53 06/10/03
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On June 10, 2003 at 04:50:36, rait wrote: >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 To have a personality use a different hash table size, you need to edit the personality and create a copy of it with a different table size. If you want the mentor engine to use a different hash table size, go to "Preferences -> Engine" and change the value there. jm
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