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Author: Harald Faber

Date: 01:30:13 12/23/98

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On December 23, 1998 at 04:27:03, Ralph E. Carter wrote:

>>>>>Do you know that engines under Fritz and Junior have their hashtables cleared
>>>>>before every move? And that this has a disproportionate effect on those engines
>>>>>that intelligently save information between moves, like hiarcs and crafty?
>>>>
>>>>I do not know but if it is the case then it is a bug in Fritz/Junior.
>>>>
>>>>Uri
>>>
>>>What do you mean "it is a bug in Fritz/Junior"?
>>>Just because the results of automated tournaments in Fritz will not be reliable,
>>>is this a bug?
>>
>>Everything not working correctly and/or making your system crash is a bug.
>>Check your topic again, you wrote s.th. of CM6k but the bug obviously is in
>>Fritz and/or Junior.
>
>Well, if there is an obvious bug in Fritz, I think that is more important, and
>we should change the title. You are right.
>
>Maybe some of our programmers can tell us if this hashtable issue has a
>disproportionate effect on the engines that save information between moves in
>the hash table.

AFAIR it is "an engine's problem". Fritz sends kind of "new" signal which makes
some engines clear their hash tables what harms their strength.
Bob, Amir, short summary?



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