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Subject: Re: Crafty not that strong (2)

Author: Djordje Vidanovic

Date: 13:50:01 04/24/00

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On April 24, 2000 at 16:06:55, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On April 24, 2000 at 15:01:22, Christophe Theron wrote:
>>
>>I'm not sure I am a respectable chess programmer, but I want to ask something:
>>
>>Why is Crafty's management of pondering supposed to be superior to Fritz'?
>>
>>Why is pondering=off supposed to handicap Crafty more than Fritz?
>>
>>Who can seriously believe that Frans Morsch is so lousy that he cannot take
>>advantage of pondering as well as Bob does?
>>
>>
>>    Christophe
>>
>Your question is _bass-ackward_ in it's phrasing.  It should be "who would not
>believe that Frans has spent more time testing with ponder=off than bob has,
>so that it isn't a surprise that fritz probably does a better job of allocating
>time in that mode than crafty does?"
>
>_that_ is the point.  Not that I am better with ponder=on.  That I am _worse_
>with ponder = off.  How hard is that to understand???
>
>


What makes you think that Frans Morsch would spend his time on a futile thing
such as testing his program with ponder=off?  You yourself stated that testing
your program with ponder=off is a waste of time, so I simply can't see why Frans
would care to waste _his_ time.  And, if you are 'not better with ponder=on, and
are worse with ponder=off', what is the inference to be drawn?

BTW, I think that Christophe has a sufficient quantity of grey matter to
understand stuff, no need to turn ironic... and bass-ackward...

***  Djordje




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