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Subject: Re: Hiarcs and the Hiarcs Mark Test

Author: Tony Hedlund

Date: 05:50:39 10/14/99

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On October 14, 1999 at 08:37:41, Jeremiah Penery wrote:

>On October 13, 1999 at 22:57:28, Carl McClain Morris, Jr. wrote:
>
>>I consistently run the Hiarcs Mark test for Hiarcs 732 on my IBM Aptiva PIII 500
>>megahertz machine and consistently score 375 plus or minus 0, max time set at
>>600 seconds.  Can you tell me how this translates into Elo rating?
>
>It doesn't, really.  As far as SSDF goes, it'll be just a few points higher, if
>any, than the top Hiarcs on the list (with 450Mhz hardware).
>
>
>>Also, can you give me a practical example of what it means to adjust the hash
>>relative to the time controls?
>
>With shorter games, you don't need so much hash.  The program is searching many
>less nodes in a shorter time control, so the hash doesn't get full.  With a long
>time control, the hash eventually fills up - this is where a bigger hash would
>help.
>
>Jeremiah

I get 228 on the short test and 354 on the long one, on my AMD K6-2 450.

Tony



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