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Subject: Re: Started...

Author: Chessfun

Date: 08:12:38 12/30/03

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On December 30, 2003 at 11:08:51, Slater Wold wrote:

>On December 30, 2003 at 10:26:50, Frank Phillips wrote:
>
>>On December 30, 2003 at 09:15:25, Slater Wold wrote:
>>
>>>On December 30, 2003 at 05:52:28, Frank Phillips wrote:
>>>
>>>>On December 29, 2003 at 18:48:14, Slater Wold wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>The game has started.
>>>>>
>>>>>Project (Crafty) vs TheHate (Shredder).
>>>>>
>>>>>Project has 8 hours, TheHate has 2 hours.
>>>>>
>>>>>Crafty is on a P4 3.0Ghz, with 192MB hash, 24MB hashp, 16MB cache, and about
>>>>>70GB of TBs.
>>>>>
>>>>>Shredder is on a P4 2.0Ghz (66% slower than the 3.0Ghz), with 256MB hash and 8MB
>>>>>of TB hash, using the TBs that come on the Chessbase CDs.
>>>>
>>>>Is ponder off?
>>>
>>>No.
>>
>>
>>I find the results of these matches interesting and was trying to work out the
>>effective speed difference.
>>
>>3/2 x 4 is easy
>>
>>Not sure about the impact of pondering
>
>Me neither.  I didn't want to run the game with pondering.
>
>But the Auto232 device in Fritz automatically enables pondering when you go into
>auto232 mode.  I e-mailed Chessbase and asked if their was a way around this,
>and guess what?  No one ever e-mailed me back.

As far as I know there is no fix for it. In a232 mode pondering is always on
regardless.

>As a matter of fact, you have to have a large book, TBs, enough hash, and
>pondering in order to even START a game...

I think the reason is probably to make sure that their programs are always
playing at optimum settings. I believe book is also automatically optimized in
a232 mode therefore my note re; Hiarcs 9 book seems odd, but the book definately
won't play 1. g3 in optimized mode.

Sarah.




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