Author: Barry Culp
Date: 05:33:35 03/17/99
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On March 15, 1999 at 22:01:48, Paulo Soares wrote: >On March 15, 1999 at 08:45:42, Barry Culp wrote: > >>On March 13, 1999 at 18:11:51, Paulo Soares wrote: >> >>>On March 13, 1999 at 16:16:22, david pulsipher wrote: >>> >>>>i have genius 5 gold and want to know what advantages genius 6 has over genius >>>>5? thank you. >>> >>>David, >>> >>>Some advantages: >>>The opennings book. >>>32 bits interface. >>>Large Hashtables(about 120 Mb). >>>Analysing with several engines. >>>Automatic play of two engines. >>>Automatic game analysis with several engines. >>>Strongly improved database interface. >>>Position tree. >>> >>>The engines:about 15 freeware and Zarkov5, W-chess2000, >>> Nimzo2000, Shredder 3. >> >> >>The Genius 6 engine itself is still limited to 32 mb hash tables no matter >>what setting you give to the overall system > > >Barry, > >In the manual of Genius 6, item 4.4.1, is written: >"ChessGenius does attempt to set an upper size limit which >depends on the amount of ram in your PC. In general it is >recommended that you should select a hash table size >that is several MB less than this maximum size". >Enrique wrote a message (I did not obtain to find) in the month of >February in which said something around 120Mb. >How you got his information? > >Best regards, >Paulo Soares, from Brazil In the Genius 6 online help facility , there is documentation that states that the Genius 6 engine itself is limited to 32 mb hash table. I verified this by setting it to 64 mb and then using Norton Utilities/System Info/Memory which showed only 32 mb allocated. Barry Culp
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