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Subject: Re: Help needed to set up hashtable in Chessmaster 6000

Author: Komputer Korner

Date: 21:51:56 11/22/98

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On November 22, 1998 at 12:36:24, Eric Adolph wrote:

>How much stronger would increaisng the Hash Table size from 1 to say, 32, make
>the program?
>
>On November 22, 1998 at 05:40:00, Jeremiah Penery wrote:
>
>>On November 22, 1998 at 05:18:34, Benatar wrote:
>>
>>>In my cm.ini i have the following lines :
>>>
>>>[engine]
>>>ttable_size=20
>>>book=Mentor.OBK
>>>
>>>I suppose the first line is about hashtable but what does it means 20 ko or 20
>>>mb or...
>>>The second line is about the opening book: is it the strongest one.
>>>Can someone help me about the way to optimize the settings.
>>>Thanx for your help
>>
>>The default hash size is 1MB, IIRC.  The 20 means 2^20 bytes, which is exactly
>>1MB.  21 will be 2MB, 22=4MB, and so on.
>>I don't know about the book.
>>
>>Jeremiah

40 points I would guess because CM6000 being a selective searcher doesn't gain
as much from hash tables as full width searchers.
--
Komputer Korner



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