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Subject: Re: Is improvement from hash tables in middle game linear or exponential?

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 07:13:18 12/20/03

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On December 20, 2003 at 08:43:37, Thomas Mayer wrote:

>Hi Vincent,
>
>>I did 2 experiments:
>>
>>experiment A) I ran diep at 460 processors with 115MB hashtable *in total*
>>experiment B) Same diep version at 460 processors with 115GB hashtables.
>>
>>Note hashtable means transpositiontable here. Each processor had local 4.2MB
>>pawnhashtable and each processor had local 32MB evaluation table.
>>
>>MB = 10^6 , GB = 10^9
>>#probes   = 4
>>entrysize = 16 bytes
>>position  = r4rk1/p1q1nppp/b2b4/2nP4/1P3p2/P1N2N2/B1P3PP/R1BQK2R w KQ -
>>
>>What is the expected outcome?
>
>well, there are several unclear facts - e.g. how to usage of 460 processors is
>different to the usage of 1 processor etc.
>
>Anyway, let's try a guess and take the idea of Christoph Theron that hashtable
>doubling is about 7 Elo... We have 10 doublings, so 70 Elos expected... Doubling
>in speed is expected with around 60 Elos... So I expect a speedup of about
>120-150%... How far am I away ?! :)
>
>Greets, Thomas

i don't want any elo answer, that's bullshit of course. Above 12 ply (without
forward pruning and with some extensions and checks in qsearch) another ply
matters shit. The question asked here is: "what does it matter for search
depth".





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