Author: Michael Fuhrmann
Date: 16:34:37 12/20/01
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On December 20, 2001 at 14:44:18, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On December 20, 2001 at 14:07:28, David Rasmussen wrote: > >>On December 20, 2001 at 13:38:02, Robert Hyatt wrote: >> >>>On December 20, 2001 at 07:17:31, Jouni Uski wrote: >>> >>>>When I play Crafty 18.10 against Yace under Winboard 4.2.3 with 60 moves in >>>>1 or 3 minutes, in almost all games Crafty seems to lose from time (Winboard >>>>says flag fell)? Actually it's only matter of may be fraction of second, but >>>>still... >>>>Has others noticed that? I remember Bob said Crafty never loses on time, but >>>>here it does... >>>>(I play with ponder off) >>> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >>> >>>What more can I say? :) >>> >> >>Why would playing with ponder off make the program lose on time?? I don't see >>the relation at all. >> >>/David > > >Because it _assumes_ it will save time here and there by "pondering" correctly >and it adjusts the time target for each move based on this assumption. But >the assumption is _wrong_ since it isn't pondering at all. The time allocation >for ponder=off simply needs more tuning. But I don't _ever_ play serious games >with ponder=off so I never test or tune for that... Still, when using just one machine to play comp-comp games under winboard, isn't it advisable to have pondering off?
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