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Subject: Re: Ponder on/off

Author: Dieter Buerssner

Date: 16:02:17 06/19/02

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On June 19, 2002 at 13:20:25, James Swafford wrote:

>I'm glad you threw in the condition "work well with both..", but
>the truth is not all engines do work equally well with pondering
>off.  Why should they?

Because the author may only have one computer with a single CPU as his testing
environment, and still likes to get some results from test games. Even, when the
CPU allocation is fair with ponder on, I prefer to do my private tests with
ponder off. It uses CPU time more efficiently (the CPU cycles for pondering on
wrong moves are not wasted).

Regards,
Dieter



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