Appendix A  --  Experimental Setup

• 343 test positions as obtained and corrected (see Section 1.5.5) from Hyatt's WWW page at URL <ftp://ftp.cis.uab.edu/pub/hyatt/plytest/positions.gz>,

• DARKTHOUGHT as of July 31, 1998 with 8M transposition-table entries (4M per side), 1M King hash-table entries (512K per side), and 512K Pawn hash-table entries,

• Digital Unix 4.0d program development tools and operating system,

• 500MHz AlphaPC164 workstation (500MHz DEC Alpha-21164a CPU, 8KB/8KB on-chip I/D L1 caches, 96KB unified on-chip L2 cache, 1MB unified off-chip L3 cache, DEC PC164 mainboard, 8x32MB PS/2 SIMMs = 256MB RAM).