Author: Odd Gunnar Malin
Date: 15:40:48 07/26/01
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On July 26, 2001 at 10:43:45, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On July 26, 2001 at 09:56:24, Matthias Gemuh wrote: >>I think you just wanted to make a joke. We all know that PONDER OFF hurts nobody >>(Fritz used its full time). PONDER ON on one CPU is very appropriate to arrive >>at wrong engine comparasons. >Nope... no joke at all. Two programs, one machine, my preference is ponder=on. >both will get 1/2 of the machine and the time controls won't be screwed up. > >ponder=off exposes the opportunity for a program to get into time trouble >because it assumes it will save time with ponder=on when it really can't since >it is disabled... > >ponder=on is the right way to test _everything_ IMHO, unless you have so little >memory that both programs won't fit at the same time. What if only one engine have ponder on? Who would be the sufferer, maybe that with ponder on. At least in timetrouble it could make some bad moves? An idea to normalize the time usage in the search with cpu-time? Odd Gunnar
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