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Subject: Re: If optimum Hash Table Size for HIARCS 7.32 is 64MB

Author: Melvin S. Schwartz

Date: 14:14:02 06/09/99

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On June 08, 1999 at 22:06:48, Timothy J. Frohlick wrote:

>On June 08, 1999 at 21:35:27, Terry Ripple wrote:
>
>> Can i still run Hiarcs if i have only 64MB Ram using an AMD K6 266MHZ MMX? And
>>could i get away with setting Hiarcs Hash Size to 32MB or would i need to go
>>even less so there is enough for Windows to operate?
>>
>>Will this affect the Performance of Hiarcs very much?
>>
>>Thankyou in advance,
>>Terry
>
>Dear Terry,
>
>Unless you are at least a 2200 USCF player HIARCS 7.32 would crush, chomp and
>chew you up as if it were Godzilla  even with a 2 MB Hash Table.  If you are
>like me then you will enjoy being devoured.  It is a tablebase program and thei
>reduces the need for hashing.
>

Listen, Tim, Hiarcs 7 may chew, stomp, etc., on you, but Hiarcs 7 hasn't won a
single game against me at 40/2 with 14 megs of RAM! And that goes for whether I
play White or Black!!

Oh, I almost forgot, just one minor detail - I remove Hiarcs Queen before the
first move :)

Mel

>I own World Championship Checkers and it has tablebases.  I run it on an "old"
>133 Pentium with no hash tables.  It once announced a forced win in 86 moves.
>No matter what I did the prediction rang true.
>
>This silliness about mega-hash tables and enormous computer RAM is not
>important.  What is important is for you to play and enjoy your computer
>opponent.
>
>Bon Appetit,
>
>Tim Frohlick
>
>
>PS I also have a 64MB 333Pentium II and rarely use more than 13MB for Hash
>tables.



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