Computer Chess Club Archives


Search

Terms

Messages

Subject: Re: Hash and first Fail High

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 19:56:34 08/15/03

Go up one level in this thread


On August 14, 2003 at 15:27:06, Peter Fendrich wrote:

>1FH = The ratio where the first generated move in the node is a Fail High.
>
>I experimented with removing the the hash table and became a bit surprised.
>Normally I have about 1FH = 95-96%. When I removed the hash table that figure
>raised to more like 1FH = 96-97% while the search depth, as expected, was
>decreased.
>
>Increased 1FH when removing the hash table. Is this normal?

Probably.  You increased the size of the tree.  And for the extra stuff you
searched, you searched it pretty accurately.  But you _did_ search it, which
slowed you down.  :)


>
>/Peter



This page took 0.01 seconds to execute

Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700

Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.