Author: Volker Pittlik
Date: 10:59:30 07/17/00
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On July 17, 2000 at 13:49:45, pavel wrote: [...] >so it goes to the old news ;) >"crafty gets effected (if any) as much as other programs with ponder=off ." >Your data certainly proves that. but I supported the author (hyatt) because I >believe the author knows more about his program than anyone else. afterall he >has been "messing" with it for more that "ten" yrs. Of course, nobody knows more about the program than the author. >but again we all can be wrong. >if you start a defferant set of games, things can be differant. Surely, but I think it's a little bit unlikely. [...] >ps, i was wondering if you have the time and the interest to perform a similar >test, but this time none of the program gets to use their opening book. with >ponder=on and ponder=off. Not really. I wanted to test the programs at settings most people use in their tournaments. If I'm successful to modify some of the engines coming with source code I would like to compile some special version which are allways pondering. And then compare the performance of such a version playing against another strong engine playing with ponder=off (1st test) and ponder=on (2nd test). Volker
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