Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 20:10:16 11/23/04
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On November 23, 2004 at 01:30:47, Uri Blass wrote: >On November 23, 2004 at 01:11:10, Ray Banks wrote: > >>On November 22, 2004 at 23:20:58, Robert Hyatt wrote: >> >>>I use ponder-on all the time, one cpu or not... If both engines ponder, each >>>gets 1/2 the processor, and that doesn't disrupt normal time allocation... >> >>Why does everyone use ponder off then on their tourneys? >> >>I've previously been told that with a single processor you can't guarantee each >>engine will get 50%, therefore to use ponder off. > >engines that ponder often do not ponder all the time. >They ponder only most of the time and they may not ponder when there is a single >move or when they are in book and engines that ponder in these cases have bigger >advantage relative to their advantage in real games. > >Uri This goes back to the old days of Ed complaining about "doubles" in the SSDF games. I told him more than once "just solve it yourself and it will be solved for all time. If you wait for the SSDF to handle doubles, you will be waiting for a long time." Ditto for pondering. It is _not_ hard to always have something to ponder...
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