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Subject: Re: PONDER=ON and TableBases on 1 PC

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 15:58:30 07/27/01

On July 27, 2001 at 18:44:45, Roy Eassa wrote:

>On July 27, 2001 at 16:55:55, Dann Corbit wrote:
>
>>On July 27, 2001 at 16:51:08, Roy Eassa wrote:
>>
>>>Be careful, Dann.  Dr. Hyatt has argued strongly that ponder should always be
>>>on, even with a single CPU.  (It seemed counter-intuitive to me too, but you
>>>should check out his recent postings -- over the past couple days, I think.)
>>
>>Not when both engines play on the same machine.
>>No way.
>
>
>Yes way!  I reacted the same way (in my head), but I respect Dr. Hyatt and his
>arguments are worth reading at least!

If you run two engines which are both pondering on a single CPU machine, then
you are simply out of your mind.

I think you must have misread the arguments.

Re: PONDER=ON and TableBases on 1 PC Terry McCracken 22:12:41 07/27/01
- Re: PONDER=ON and TableBases on 1 PC Uri Blass 01:17:18 07/28/01
  - Re: PONDER=ON and TableBases on 1 PC Robert Hyatt 07:59:36 07/28/01
    - Re: Ponder=off is in my opinion better on single system and about tb's! Frank Quisinsky 07:50:47 07/29/01
      - Re: Ponder=off is in my opinion better on single system and about tb's! Robert Hyatt 06:31:28 07/30/01
        
        Re: OK, we can make a test ... Frank Quisinsky 07:44:22 07/30/01
        
        Re: OK, we can make a test ... Robert Hyatt 18:26:59 07/30/01
        
        Re: OK, we can make a test ... Dieter Buerssner 18:38:58 07/31/01
        
        Re: OK, we can make a test ... Robert Hyatt 20:19:48 07/31/01
        
        Re: OK, we can make a test ... Dieter Buerssner 18:06:00 08/01/01
        
        Re: OK, we can make a test ... Uri Blass 07:11:58 08/01/01
        
        Re: OK, we can make a test ... Frank Quisinsky 14:12:00 07/31/01
  - Re: PONDER=ON and TableBases on 1 PC Robert Hyatt 07:59:33 07/28/01
  - Re: PONDER=ON and TableBases on 1 PC Uri Blass 01:28:50 07/28/01
- Re: PONDER=ON and TableBases on 1 PC Dann Corbit 22:26:50 07/27/01
  - Re: PONDER=ON and TableBases on 1 PC Terry McCracken 22:44:09 07/27/01
    - Re: PONDER=ON and TableBases on 1 PC Terry McCracken 23:21:06 07/27/01
      - Re: PONDER=ON and TableBases on 1 PC Dann Corbit 23:49:56 07/27/01
        
        Re: PONDER=ON and TableBases on 1 PC Uri Blass 01:06:42 07/28/01
        
        Re: PONDER=ON and TableBases on 1 PC Dieter Buerssner 04:32:00 07/29/01
        
        Re: PONDER=ON and TableBases on 1 PC Fabio Barrettone 06:19:00 08/01/01

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