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Subject: Re: Crafty 17-10 v Fritz 6a ponder=on Single cpu

Author: Tom Kerrigan

Date: 20:11:46 04/28/00

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On April 28, 2000 at 12:05:04, Chessfun wrote:

>On April 28, 2000 at 11:58:05, Jason Williamson wrote:
>
>>On April 28, 2000 at 08:59:27, Chessfun wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>All games on one Cel 433.
>>>Ponder=on.
>>>Tablebases used at 25 and longer.
>>>Nunn 1 positions.
>>>No opening books are loaded.
>>>
>>> 1 min game    Fritz 6a 10.0 - 10.0 Crafty 17-10
>>> 2 min game    Fritz 6a 12.0 -  8.0 Crafty 17-10
>>> 3 min game    Fritz 6a 16.5 -  3.5 Crafty 17-10
>>> 5 min game    Fritz 6a 16.0 -  4.0 Crafty 17-10
>>>10 min game    Fritz 6a      -      Crafty 17-10 running
>>>25 min game    Fritz 6a  7.0 -  6.0 Crafty 17-10 Current score
>>>60 min game    Fritz 6a      -      Crafty 17-10 Unplayed
>>>Tourney times  Fritz 6a      -      Crafty 17-10 Unplayed
>>>
>>>These results seem to be all over.
>>>
>>>As anyone using F6 knows with ponder=on you get a question,
>>>Permanent Brain on single processor?.
>>>
>>>Thanks
>>
>>Ponder on with one cpu will only determine which program can suck up more cpu
>>power faster.  ;)
>>There isn't even a guarantee that the two engines would split it 50/50.
>
>This is also my opinion.
>Thanks.

I think there are programs that you can get for Windows that will tell you how
much CPU time each process is using. I know that Windows NT (and presumably
2000) has a rudimentary version of this feature built-in.

I still consider ponder=on games sloppy if they're on the same computer.

-Tom



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