Author: Uri Blass
Date: 10:01:56 08/02/01
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On August 02, 2001 at 10:53:02, Ed Panek wrote: >Lets say 2 programs are playing a standard game. the opening books lead to >instant replies to move 20. then at move 20 your chess engine begins pondering >its move for 7 minutes and then it moves. The game ends in a win for your >program. Is there a danger to adding this 7 minute pondered move into an >extended type opening book file? So next time it plays this opening it will see >that for 7 minutes it saw this as the movelast time...so why waste 7 minutes >again reaching the same conclusion? play the move right away. > > >Ed There are reasons not to do it and reasons to do it for the ssdf games 1)A reason not to do it: Suppose your computer opponent does not have a learning function. If you repeat exactly the same time of calculating the opponent is going to repeat the same moves. If you play moves in 0 seconds the opponent is not going to be able to ponder in your move and the result may be that it is going to play a different move and draw or win the game. 2)A reason to do it: You can save time on the clock and this time may be important when you play against an opponent who can learn by position but does not learn to avoid the same opening line. Uri
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