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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