Author: pavel
Date: 11:27:49 07/17/00
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On July 17, 2000 at 14:11:45, Mogens Larsen wrote: >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. >>but again we all can be wrong. > >There's no realistic evidence to support that other programmers are not equally >capable of understanding the intricate nature of pondering. The author's >understanding of his own program isn't relevant, unless he/she is absolutely >sure that the program has a serious problem pondering correctly or is aware of >the capabilities of the opponents in this area. > >Best wishes... >Mogens I think the question is not about whether the programs ponders_correctly or not_ponders_correctly. its more about whats the effect with ponder=on and ponder=off to particular program (this case srafty). If you follow the messages in winboard forum correctly you will see some posting about yace's pondering. Where the author clearly stated that "the pondering feature in YACE is in the primitive stage and might have problems". But in several matches with ponder=on with yace (done by other peoples) showed that it played just as good. Doesnt necessary means that ponder=on doesnt effects its playing as much as it does to other programs. By the way I have done some similar tests with yace ponder=on vs other programs. Unfortunately I deleted it. I guess I will do it again (just for fun). Also all the arguements about ponder=off effects on crafty were done by "program testers" like us. Not by anyone who actually sit with the source code, read the codes of pondering and time allocation, and than played thousands and thousands of games on chess servers, and then studies games for years, and then came to conclusion. thanks pavel ps, by the way how is your tourny going on? any update? Its not always possible to check all the the webpages (in my favarites) to see for updates ;). so pls if anything interesting comes up post them here or in winboard forum.
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