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Subject: Re: crafty 16.3 - something broken in K and P endgames?

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 13:15:21 01/31/99

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On January 31, 1999 at 11:50:59, James B. Shearer wrote:

>On January 31, 1999 at 10:43:10, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>                       <snip>
>>
>>you must have something broken on your machine, first.  I ran this on my
>>PII/300 notebook, and get to ply 16 in a minute, not hours.  Is your machine
>>swapping/paging a lot?  It takes me to depth=16 to fail high on h4, takes 2:00
>>on my notebook, and 25 seconds on my quad xeon...  I couldn't begin to explain
>>why it would take hours to get to ply=16 there...  I am at ply=17 failing high
>>again after only 3 minutes on my notebook.
>
>    What cache sizes are you using?  I was using 12M and 2M on a machine with
>32M of memory which should be ok.  Depth 14 finished in 1.5 minutes and the time
>blew up in depth 15 to 40 minutes.  I will try different hash sizes.
>    Meanwhile I escaped with another undeserved draw last night against
>brunhilde (another crafty clone) in a similar position.
>                               James B. Shearer


I used the default everything...



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