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Subject: Re: Dann Corbit and Dr. Hyatt -- please read this!

Author: Chuck

Date: 08:02:26 07/29/01

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On July 29, 2001 at 06:51:54, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:

>On July 28, 2001 at 23:42:00, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>
>>My conclusion...  ponder=off was worse for crafty as its time management was
>>not well designed nor tested for this mode.
>
>A simple (about 2 lines) fix would be to reduce 'usage' a
>bit if pondering is off.
>
>Easy to implement, fixes the most obvious problems, and it's
>logical to have this.
>
>On Linux you can run with two engines with pondering on, but
>I don't trust Windows much for that. Even more because some
>engines (like Gerbil) lower their priorities. Running on of
>them in this kind of match would be very unfair.
>
>--
>GCP

In agreement with this last statement, I have observed under Windows where 1
engine badly effected its opponents nps when pondering was on. There's no sense
in trying to match 2 engines under this condition.

Chuck



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