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Subject: Re: April Winboard Knockout 1 round results so far:

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 09:47:14 03/28/00

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On March 28, 2000 at 12:42:09, James Robertson wrote:
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>>Hmmm... TCB is a real powerhouse but Lambchop is a very strong engine.  You
>>might look over your settings for Lambchop.  Check also to see if TCB was
>>pondering or some such folly.
>
>When I run TCB in matches it uses processor time (>50%) even when the other
>program is thinking and it is not pondering. Do you have any ideas to fix this?

Surely, it is pondering then.  I always run separate programs on separate
machines.  But I am fairly sure that you can turn pondering off.  Here is the
place to look to find out how to set up chess engines:
http://f11.parsimony.net/forum16635/

And especially here:
http://www.in-trier.de/~quisinsky/schach/engines/english/tcbishop.htm

This clearly states that you can turn pondering off.  However, I don't know how
to do it.

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