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Subject: Re: Ponder on/off

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 01:03:00 06/20/02

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On June 19, 2002 at 17:59:43, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>That is the problem.  Crafty _always_ has something to ponder until it reaches
>a tablebase or forced mate.  I don't suffer from that problem but I do suffer
>from poor time usage with ponder=off however...

I think I mailed this before, but here it is again:

make 'usage -25' the default when pondering is off.

I arrived at this value when I needed to test against
Crafty and couldn't leave pondering on. With it, Crafty
seems to nicely follow the time usage of most other top
amateurs.

--
GCP



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