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Subject: Re: The result of the Tiger / CMQueen+ match is IRRELEVANT

Author: blass uri

Date: 10:17:26 05/27/00

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On May 27, 2000 at 12:15:32, José Carlos wrote:

>On May 27, 2000 at 03:49:30, Jeremiah Penery wrote:
>
>>On May 27, 2000 at 03:04:59, Didzis Cirulis wrote:
>>
>>>Playing two programs on one PC while both of them have
>>>their pondering ON is a useless activity. Fair match impossible.
>>
>>I'm wondering why you say a fair match is impossible.  Every time I've played 2
>>programs at the same time, each one gets exactly 50% of the CPU.  This would
>>seem to make it a perfectly fair match, no?
>>
>>Jeremiah
>
>  ChessMaster uses CPU even in background woth ponder off. Other programs don't,
>but with CM, it is impossible to set a fair match (50% of the time) in one
>machine.
>
>  José C.

It is not impossible to do a fair match with ponder off.
You only need to give the right unequal times to the programs so the practical
time is equal and the match is fair.

Uri

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