Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 13:56:05 04/24/00
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On April 24, 2000 at 16:50:01, Djordje Vidanovic wrote: >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? trivial to answer, when you think about it. Why would he spend any time on _anything_ other than the 'engine' itself? Perhaps because he is the author of a commercial program? Why have the commercial programmers spent so much time tweaking and tuning for SSDF play? To make their program look better than the others, for a marketing edge? If you knew that lots of people wre going to be playing games on one computer, using your program, would _you_ spend time to make it play as strongly as possible to keep that marketing edge? this is all really simple, when you think about it. I don't 'sell' anything, so I am not interested in those odd matches at all. If I were selling a chess engine, you can be _sure_ I would test it thoroughly in the mode that many users are going to be using it... > >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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