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Subject: Re: Permanent Brain ON vs Permanent Brain OFF

Author: Jeroen van Dorp

Date: 14:52:19 07/26/01

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It's about the time-trouble....

Forgive my ignorance, but with the same reasoning a program with the "ponder is
always on-code" could decide to cut off calculations earlier because it thinks
it has some calcluations done already -or will do - which in fact isn't the
truth.

In that case not *time trouble* but bigger chance of flawed analysis (because it
allots itself too little time to think) would be the problem.

IOW: a chess engine wouldn't use extra time with ponder=off because it also
counts the non-existing pondering time during opponent's moves,so *no* (extra)
chance of time trouble.

But it *would* run into calculation problems because the time allocation for
proper calculation is wrong.

Where am I going wrong?

J.



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