Author: Jari Huikari
Date: 05:28:26 05/26/00
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On May 26, 2000 at 06:53:51, Jari Huikari wrote: >On May 25, 2000 at 10:24:13, Mogens Larsen wrote: > >> I just don't think there's any >> measureable advantage with ponder on at blitz. >> The time saved can't be used to reach an extra ply. >Perhaps sometimes it can. If e.g. opponent uses long time to calculate his >move in some position more difficult than usual. Or if the program is in time trouble, e.g. has only 10 seconds left while opponent has two minutes. In this kind of situation pondering gives the program much extra thinking time, and even several extra plies. (When guessed correctly which move the opponent would make.) Jari
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