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Subject: Re: Chesstiger have a problem with FINE 70 position !?

Author: Dieter Buerssner

Date: 11:59:06 06/20/03

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On June 20, 2003 at 09:12:57, Ulrich Tuerke wrote:

>I don't think that solving this position is a matter of pruning or extensions,
>since Comet could solve it on a 16 MHz 80386 in a few seconds.
>It's rather a test for hash replacement rules, i.e. handling situations where
>the hash table is overflowing heavily which is of course the case here.

Uli, I think, "overflowing" of HTs is not a big problem here. Many engines will
solve this very fast - in a time where a typical sized HT (say few MBs) will not
be filled up very much.

BTW. I tested this without HTs some time ago. It needed about 8 hours - IIRC
(seeing a pawn win at ply 26). With only 10 kBytes of HTs (831 entries), the
position gets solved immediately! As with any other size. With those 831 hash
entries, depth 28 is reached in 1 s. Quite a few orders of magnitude speed
increase for a few hash entries. Of course, in this situation (where the HTs
really are overcrowded), the replacing scheme may play a significant role.

Regards,
Dieter



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