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Subject: Re: Ponder on/off

Author: Dieter Buerssner

Date: 08:52:04 06/20/02

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On June 19, 2002 at 21:34:08, James Swafford wrote:

>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."

You are right, I answered the "why would". Why should? For me, because it is
easy. My engine just uses about 30% less time with ponder off. "tuning" sounds
much too sophisticated for this. However, I think more sophistication would not
buy much here. One could also ask: "Why should he not". Perhaps to make testing
for those other engine authors without duals or 2 computers more complicated?
:-)

Regards,
Dieter



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