Author: Mogens Larsen
Date: 12:39:41 07/17/00
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On July 17, 2000 at 14:48:37, Ralf Elvsén wrote: >If a program plays poorly with ponder = ON there is no excuse >since this must be considered the default mode. No, that's not entirely true. That would depend on each program according to its present state of development. Furthermore, default mode depends on the configuration under which you're testing. Ponder on should be considered the optimal or strongest setting. >What Bob has been >trying to say is that he hasn't invested much time in ponder = OFF >and so results from this way of matching computers >aren't interesting (at least not to him). The question is not >who understands pondering best. Often we don't >know how much time an author has spent on tuning ponder = OFF, >unless he states so clearly of course. Exactly, we don't know how much have been spent on either. So there's no reason to assume that Bob has spent more time on ponder on or less time on ponder off than anybody else. Claiming otherwise is a stab in the dark. >Bob says it's not the >way to play Crafty. One can't just dismiss him... Off course you can, but the results would be of no importance to Bob. Considering that most people haven't got a dual or quad machine for ponder on testing, it's important to acknowledge that the comparative strength between programs appears to be almost unchanged by using ponder off. Best wishes... Mogens
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