Author: Bernhard Bauer
Date: 01:02:30 04/26/00
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On April 26, 2000 at 00:53:37, Bruce Moreland wrote: >On April 25, 2000 at 18:23:59, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>I don't think it is "horribly crippled". Just "crippled". In ways I >>understand, but don't want to waste the time fixing. Too much depends on >>saving some time with pondering. Turning it off would be doable, but a lot >>of testing and modification would be needed to fix all the holes doing that >>creates. I barely have enough time to work on the program as is, and I would >>much rather work on the Beowulf search than spend time tuning something I don't >>and won't ever use... >> >>If you are rich, money is no object. In this case, time is money and I am >>nearly broke. I watch _every_ penny (minute) of time I spend since I have so >>little of it nowadays.. > >Perhaps you could default pondering to on, and comment out the "ponder off" >command. If someone wanted to turn it back on for testing, they could, but if >someone wants to use a stock version of your thing to do a "I'm going to prove >that Bob is stupid" test, they'd have to modify your code to do it, which would >make the test more than a bit suspect. > >bruce No need to change the current situation. Playing with ponder=off cripples Crafty. This is well known. If someone wants to play a more meaningfull match on one machine, he could do so on a simple two-proc machine. If he (she) insists to run a match on one machine he (she) could do so too, I simply ignore the results. Ponder=off, however is very usefull for testing positions. BTW, I hate to see people pestering Bob to make stupid things like playing games with Ponder=off, making Crafty weaker and so on. Kind regards Bernhard
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