Author: James Swafford
Date: 18:34:08 06/19/02
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On June 19, 2002 at 19:02:17, Dieter Buerssner wrote: >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). > Right - that's a perfect reason an author may decide to tune his engine for "ponder off". But the question wasn't "why would... ", but "why should." >Regards, >Dieter
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