Author: Uri Blass
Date: 02:55:19 02/22/04
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On February 22, 2004 at 05:51:05, Uri Blass wrote: >On February 22, 2004 at 04:02:21, Andre van Ark wrote: > >>Hi folks, >> >>I try to play with Ruffian 2.0.0 under the Chessbase Gui. Ruffi has been set up >>as a UCI engine. >> >>It work "fine" but........ >> >>After looking at the Ruffian.log I discovered that Ruffian gets the "New game >>command" AFTER EACH MOVE. >> >>So, Ruffian never can keep its hashtables and has to calculate each move from >>the beginning. That is imho a BIG disadvantage. > >I disagree about the size of the disadvantage. >This is probably not more than a small disadvantage of not more than 20 elo. > >remember that most of the information in the hash is irrelevant because part of >it is about moves that ruffian did not play and part of it is about replies that >the opponent did not reply. > >Uri The disadvantage can be a big problem only in blitz if it cause Ruffian to lose on time but it is possible to prevent the problem even in blitz by giving Ruffian small hash. Note that I did not consider the time of clearing hash tables as a disadvantage in my previous reply because I assumed that clearing the hash is almost 0 time relative to the time that is used for calculating and it is the case in tournament games. Uri
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