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Subject: Re: Ponder on/off

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 08:28:44 06/20/02

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On June 20, 2002 at 04:03:00, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:

>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


If you are convinced that is reasonable, I will certainly add it
in...



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