Author: George Speight
Date: 10:20:35 01/25/06
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I got the info i gave you in the previous email from one of the resident chessbase tech. experts in Germany. I told him the math that Steve Lopez quoted in a chesbase article for deciding hashes didnt add up. He gave me the following, which ws all i was really interested in. He said for a 5 min. game- 32mb hash. For a 30 or 40 min. game- 128mb hash. For longer time controls like 1hour or more - 256mb hash if you have the avail. hash. If you are running engine-engine, never use more than half your avail. total hash for the total for both engines. Of course 40 moves in 40 min. repeating would be- 128 mb also. For really long time controls, use as much as you can get away with, without seeing a fall off in nodes per second or hard drive ratcheting. Of course the above hash settings he gave me may have been based on my giving him my processor speed, which is 2.8ghz. You might want to contact him and discuss this with him. His name is Hans and his email address is as follows: hans@schach.de He is a nice man and should be able to help you, tho sometimes it will take him a few days to get back to you. My personal guess based on what he gave me was that for anything shorter than 5 min. i would set the hash on either 16 or 32 mb. I dont think it will make a hell of a lot of diff. one way or the other. You have to realize that when people bring up correct hash settings, you can almost never get 2 to agree on much of anything. If it were me, i would stick with Hans advice. Hope this is if some help. George
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