Author: Norm Pollock
Date: 07:04:48 10/10/04
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On October 10, 2004 at 09:46:50, Mike Byrne wrote: >On October 10, 2004 at 06:46:13, William Penn wrote: > >>I did a little experimenting, and if I limit the TBs to generally those of 15 MB >>or less, there isn't any serious hard drive chugging nor slowdown with Shredder >>8. Otherwise it would wear out my hard drive quickly, I'm afraid, with the >>constant very heavy access - as well as be much too slow in terms of nodes per >>second. I don't have so much of a problem with Fritz or other engines in that >>regard, just Shredder 8. Shredder 7 wasn't quite as bad. >>WP > >I have found in setting the EGTB cache to 8MB seems to work very well in Crafty >-- not sure about about Shredder. You also don't need all the 5-man tbs. The ones that are obvious eg KQQQK can be omitted. I use a subset that is 3G instead of the full 7G. I add to it whenever I see the need for a particular 5-man ending.
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