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Houdini Help

Here are examples of the parameters you can set in most engines to influence their
playing style. You will often be able to achieve a higher performance in specific
situations (e.g., playing very fast games, solving tactical positions or studies).
Different parameters may be available in different engines, not all of the ones given
below may appear in your default.
Note: The default configuration of the engine has been carefully tested. It is possible
that in some circumstances other settings lead to better results, but for the best
overall performance and strongest play it is recommened that you leave the default
settings unchanged.

Engine Parameters of the Engine
You can modify the parameters of the engine. When you load an engine with the
function key F3 you should select the engine that you want to load.

There is a button entitled "Engine Parameters" which opens a dialog with some
options:

Hash: Amount of hash table memory used by Houdini, in MB.
Default 128, min 4, max 1024 (32-bit) or 4096 (64-bit Standard) or 262144 (64-bit
Pro). The value is rounded down to a power of 2 (4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512,
1024, 2048, 4096, 8192, 16384, 32768, 65536, 131072, 262144 MB).

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