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Subject: Re: Shredder

Author: Günther Simon

Date: 00:17:56 04/15/05

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On April 14, 2005 at 19:31:19, Earl Fuller wrote:

>On April 14, 2005 at 09:04:32, Günther Simon wrote:
>
>>On April 14, 2005 at 08:38:02, Earl Fuller wrote:
>>
>>>Hi Kurt, i'm sure your right.  I was just amazed at how well this Genius program
>>>did against Shredder. I didn't believe it would win one game, but i was wrong. I
>>>have Shredder playing on a new AMD 2200+ with a 1,000 megs of ram, with Genius
>>>on an old P200 with 64 megs of ram,___hummm, i wonder if Shredder is using to
>>>much ram, ?______well, in any case i'll play around with it and see if i can't
>>>inprove Shredders score.
>>>earl
>>
>>How much ram does your AMD have physically? What time control do you use?
>>Do you use HT on that machine?
>>I see serious flaws on the horizon...
>>(first guess: your machine swaps because you have not enough ram for
>>setting up Shredder with 1000MB, second guess: you use a very fast time control,
>>when your hash setting might hurt)
>>
>>Guenther
>
>
>This Machine is an AMD 2200+ with 1,000 megs of Ram, a 120 gig hard drive, it
>uses XP Pro.  Yes, it has a 1,000 megs of ram and the Shredder program uses 409
>megs of this ram for hash tables.  No, there is no swapping to the hard drive.
>And i use just 5 seconds per move settings for both programs.
>There is hardly anything on the hard drive and nothing running in the
>background,___so___:)
>earl

Try to reduce your hash for such a speed time control of only 5 sec per move,
Shredder never has the time to fill that 409MB hash.
BTW why that strange number of 409?

Guenther



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