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Subject: Re: Hiarcs and the Hiarcs Mark Test

Author: James T. Walker

Date: 06:50:40 10/14/99

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On October 14, 1999 at 08:50:39, Tony Hedlund wrote:

>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

These numbers will vary with the amount of Hash Memory you have set.  So it's
hard to compare them without specifying the hash memory used for both the short
and long test.
Jim Walker



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