Author: Russell Reagan
Date: 13:11:05 08/26/02
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On August 26, 2002 at 15:08:43, William H Rogers wrote: >On August 26, 2002 at 09:50:47, José Carlos wrote: >> If you're only interested in analytical capabilities, a match with same book >>won't work, because pondering scheme, time management, asymetrical eval, etc >>will make the test worthless. If you only want to test analytical capabilities >>you'd better use a big test suite, IMO. >> >> José C. > >Your statement is not correct, because as long as a program is using its books >the rest of the program is in an idle state with no pondering ect. It only goes >into those modes when it is out of book moves. If it finds a book move then the >move is made immediately, not after it has thought about it first. >Bill Once again, you are with the majority here and you make a gross error. You assume, like almost everyone else, that all chess engines work the same. Can you tell me with 100% confidence that you know for sure that my engine doesn't ponder while it's still in book? I doubt you can, because you have no way of knowing what code I may or may not have changed right before I posted this. What if someone wants to ponder their next book move for a few moments to ensure that it's not a tactical blunder? According to you all programs do everything the exact same way when handling the book, and I seriously doubt that's the case. Limiting the book limits creativity, and isn't generally productive. We're not going to get any new advances in computer chess opening play by limiting what people can and can not do. Russell
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