Author: Bo Persson
Date: 04:44:30 07/27/01
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On July 26, 2001 at 11:45:29, Terry McCracken wrote: >I doubt time trouble is that serious an >issue with ponder off. Besides, it goes for both programs tested right? It >should balance out. But Bob's point is that he has designed *his* program to be run on its own computer, with ponder=on. All his testing and tuning is done from this perspective, to make Crafty run as good as possible in this configuration. Now, some people are running the program in another configuration, considered inferior and uninteresting by the author, and then they are surprised that he doesn't like the test results. Go figure... For example, Crafty will allocate 2-3 times the normal search time when its (so far) best move suddenly fails low, smelling a trap. It is counting on being able to recover this extra search time by using the opponent time in future moves. By using ponder=off, you deny it this option, so now it could either fall into the trap or lose on time... Bo Persson bop2@telia.com
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