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Subject: Re: After 12 rounds CM9K Tourney 5-0

Author: Sandi Ordinario

Date: 08:30:52 09/10/02

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On September 09, 2002 at 16:17:09, John Merlino wrote:

>On September 09, 2002 at 12:26:22, Sandi Ordinario wrote:
>
>>On September 08, 2002 at 21:20:26, John Merlino wrote:
>>
>>>On September 08, 2002 at 19:55:01, Aloisio Ponti Lopes wrote:
>>>
>>>>On September 08, 2002 at 19:07:08, Mike Byrne wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>CM8K is ahead of CM9K by 1/2 game.  Drawmaster Logan has not lost game! 3 rounds
>>>>>to go.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>Name                Wins    Draws   Losses  Games   Score
>>>>>Waitzkin               5       4       3      12     7.0
>>>>>Capablanca             3       0       9      12     3.0
>>>>
>>>>This "Waitzkin" personality doesn't match the real man... and that "Capablanca"
>>>>personality, isn't it drunk?
>>>>
>>>>A. Ponti
>>>
>>>Keep in mind that this is a G/5 tournament, in which anything can happen. Also,
>>>if the default settings are being used, then the tournament is being played with
>>>pondering on, so the engines are only getting <50% of the CPU.
>>>
>>>jm
>>
>>Hi Jim,
>>I recently got my pre-ordered CM9000 and am happy about the performance on my
>>PIII 900Mhz laptop. My question is how do you get the "pondering on" feature be
>>off so that it would even perform stronger against humans like myself? Thanks.
>>Sandi
>
>I assume you want to turn pondering OFF so that it will NOT be as strong against
>humans? Correct?
>
>Either way, to turn pondering off, you need to create a copy of the personality
>that you want to play against, and set pondering off in its settings. You can do
>this by going to "Game -> Set Up Personality", then selecting the personality
>that you want to copy with the "Select" button. After you have loaded that
>personality, deselect "Pondering" and save the new personality with a name such
>as "CM No Ponder".
>
>That should do the trick.
>
>jm
Thanks, Jim

The purpose of turning off "pondering" is to make it move faster playing Blitz.
Is this right? However the trade-off maybe is that it will not select the best
move.

Sandi



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