diff --git a/config/config.go b/config/config.go
index caa4aae5..7d7c030c 100644
--- a/config/config.go
+++ b/config/config.go
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ func DefaultConfig() *Config {
 
 	c.SetDefault(ConfigDefaultLexicon, "NWL23")
 	c.SetDefault(ConfigDefaultLetterDistribution, "English")
-	c.SetDefault(ConfigTtableMemFraction, 0.25)
+	c.SetDefault(ConfigTtableMemFraction, 0.20)
 	c.SetDefault(ConfigDefaultBoardLayout, "CrosswordGame")
 	c.SetDefault(ConfigTritonUseTriton, false)
 	c.SetDefault(ConfigTritonURL, "localhost:8001")
@@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ func (c *Config) Load(args []string) error {
 	c.SetDefault(ConfigDataPath, "./data") // will be fixed by toAbsPath below if unspecified.
 	c.SetDefault(ConfigDefaultLexicon, "NWL23")
 	c.SetDefault(ConfigDefaultLetterDistribution, "English")
-	c.SetDefault(ConfigTtableMemFraction, 0.25)
+	c.SetDefault(ConfigTtableMemFraction, 0.20)
 	c.SetDefault(ConfigDefaultBoardLayout, "CrosswordGame")
 	c.SetDefault(ConfigTritonURL, "localhost:8001")
 	c.SetDefault(ConfigTritonModelName, "macondo-nn")
diff --git a/endgame/negamax/transposition_table.go b/endgame/negamax/transposition_table.go
index 63928215..af274336 100644
--- a/endgame/negamax/transposition_table.go
+++ b/endgame/negamax/transposition_table.go
@@ -235,10 +235,10 @@ func (t *TranspositionTable) Reset(fractionOfMemory float64, boardDim int) {
 
 	p := message.NewPrinter(language.English)
 	log.Info().
-		Str("num-elems", p.Sprintf("%d", numElems)).
-		Str("desired-num-elems", p.Sprintf("%.0f", desiredNElems)).
-		Str("estimated-total-memory-bytes", p.Sprintf("%d", numElems*entrySize)).
-		Str("mem-limit", p.Sprintf("%d", totalMem)).
+		Str("allocated-elems", p.Sprintf("%d", numElems)).
+		Str("desired-elems", p.Sprintf("%.0f", desiredNElems)).
+		Str("allocated-bytes", p.Sprintf("%d", numElems*entrySize)).
+		Str("memory-budget", p.Sprintf("%d", totalMem)).
 		Bool("reset", reset).
 		Msg("transposition-table-size")
 
diff --git a/gcgio/gcg.go b/gcgio/gcg.go
index 33de83b6..656eb6c8 100644
--- a/gcgio/gcg.go
+++ b/gcgio/gcg.go
@@ -615,7 +615,7 @@ func ParseGCGFromReader(cfg *config.Config, reader io.Reader) (*pb.GameHistory,
 	parser.history.OriginalGcg = strings.TrimSpace(originalGCG)
 
 	// Determine if the game ended.
-	if parser.game.Playing() == pb.PlayState_GAME_OVER {
+	if parser.game != nil && parser.game.Playing() == pb.PlayState_GAME_OVER {
 		parser.history.PlayState = pb.PlayState_GAME_OVER
 		parser.game.AddFinalScoresToHistory()
 	}