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Subject: Re: Is pondering unfair in engine matches on a PC?

Author: Leen Ammeraal

Date: 10:07:27 02/19/01

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On February 19, 2001 at 12:54:00, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On February 19, 2001 at 11:32:43, Leen Ammeraal wrote:
>
>>I am puzzled about pondering when
>>playing matches with two chess engines
>>on a single PC, using WinBoard (under Windows 98).
>>While one side is 'thinking' about the next move,
>>should it not get all the computer time
>>available? Then, at the same time, how can
>>the opponent get computer time to ponder?
>>Does it steal it?
>>Leen
>
>
>Both will get 1/2 of the total time.  ponder=on is the best way to run
>an engine vs engine game on a single computer, in my opinion.  But you can't
>do time-handicapping games (giving one side more time per move) as this doesn't
>quite work out fairly with ponder=on.


Does that mean that, with pondering on, my program, which currently does not
implement pondering, get less computer time than its opponent if the
latter implements pondering?
Leen






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