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Subject: Re: The King under CB question

Author: Jonas Cohonas

Date: 00:51:41 01/10/02

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On January 10, 2002 at 03:45:21, Odd Gunnar Malin wrote:

>On January 10, 2002 at 03:18:07, Jonas Cohonas wrote:
>
>>Is there anyway to make theking ponder under CB GUI??
>>
>>Regards
>>Jonas
>
>The way CB GUI handle pondering for Winboard engines that not spesific say that
>they are CB compatible (e.g. implemented ponder command) is:
>
>1.CB tourn off ponder with hard+easy
>
>2.When it receives a PV line it allways save the last opponent move (move 2).
>
>3.Now when the engine do a move CB do the move on the board and send a new game
>to the engine with this saved PV move as opponent move and let the engine think
>that it is his time again.
>
>4.If the opponent do the expected move CB let the enging proceed with his
>thinking. If opponent didn't do the expected move it send the engine the a new
>game with this new move and let the engine think on this position.
>
>With newer adapter than the one from nov.2000 this hard+easy command is 'buggy'
>so be sure to use the adapter from Chessbase's site.
>
>There have also been opserved that the move CB send the engine as 'ponder' move
>isn't allways the from the last pv-line.
>
>As you can see this would let (weaker) engines that have not any ponder feature
>play a little better but top engines that would like to take care of this
>themself isn't allowed to do that.
>It will also heart the engine a little if the opponent use longer time to make
>the expected move.
>
>Odd Gunnar
>(PS. I have only tested this with demo version of Fritz 6)

Thx for the info, i just added the hard command onto the inbetween.ini and it
works fine, next up live will be The King v All the others :)

Regards
Jonas



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