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Subject: Re: trash depths again..

Author: Jorge Pichard

Date: 13:41:53 08/12/04

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On August 12, 2004 at 16:07:26, Uri Blass wrote:

>On August 12, 2004 at 14:30:15, Günther Simon wrote:
>
>>On August 12, 2004 at 09:05:49, Jorge Pichard wrote:
>>
>>>Before I posted that Jonny was not performing good with the Wizard book, I
>>>checked my settings and they are fine, but Jonny is failing to perform against
>>>these three ggreat engines at G/30. The last game is being played and gothmog is
>>>winning by a score of 3.25, therefore, Movei and Gotmog will end up with a tie
>>>score of 10 points each.
>>
>>...already in the second game of your post there were some weird depths
>>shown again for Gothmog (only depth 4-6). I wonder if you do some work
>>or anything else on your machine during your tourneys, as they are _so_
>>often flawed up. Only other reason beneath wrong setups (happened also quite
>>often to you) would be an enormous bug in your Arena version.
>>
>>Günther
>>
>>P.S. I was too lazy to look at the other games.
>>P.S2 your answer to Uri in another thread about the same problem
>>was completely ignorant.
>>P.S3 Why dont you ever check your games before posting?
>
>I think that a second possibility is that the hash that is used is too big.
>
>I remember that Igor from the infinite loop with 256 mbytes hash does not give
>engines 64 mbytes but less than it because he found that even 1/4 of the ram for
>every engine is too much hash if he wants to prevent similiar problems.
>
>Uri

Yes, you are definitively correct and it could be the memory, but whatever it
was it should have also affected the other programs as well, since I assigned
64MB of hash to each program. It could also be my McAfee, since it takes a lot
of memory and I only have 256MB on my machine.

Jorge





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