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Subject: Ponder=off working more efficient?

Author: Kurt Utzinger

Date: 00:14:53 06/20/02

Personally spoken, I prefer matches with ponder=off. And this due to an
experiment made some years ago even played on_two_PC 486/86 with_two_programs at
level 120 min/40 moves. The first match over 20 games was played with ponder=on,
the second match [same openings] with ponder=off. And you will hardly believe
it, but in the match with ponder=off the overall average search depth per move
was higher than in the match with ponder=on. This seems to confirm what Dieter
Buerssner wrote on this subject. He said that he would prefer to do his private
tests with ponder=off as this method would use CPU time more efficiently because
the CPU cycles for pondering on wrong moves are not wasted. Maybe someone should
repeat such a test with the latest programs to have a good comparison between
the various programs.
Kurt

• Re: Ponder=off working more efficient? Important correcttion Kurt Utzinger 05:55:34 06/20/02
• ??? Georg v. Zimmermann 02:00:35 06/20/02
• Re: Ponder=off working more efficient? Tony Werten 00:37:13 06/20/02
  • Re: Ponder=off working more efficient? Gian-Carlo Pascutto 00:49:14 06/20/02
    • Re: Ponder=off working more efficient? Tony Werten 02:00:17 06/20/02
  • Re: Ponder=off working more efficient? Kurt Utzinger 00:46:47 06/20/02
    • Re: Ponder=off working more efficient? James Swafford 04:49:58 06/20/02
      • Re: Ponder=off working more efficient? Robert Henry Durrett 07:31:03 06/20/02
        • Re: Ponder=off working more efficient? Roy Eassa 08:49:46 06/20/02
          • Re: Ponder=off working more efficient? Robert Henry Durrett 09:23:34 06/20/02

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