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Subject: Re: Crafty ponder experiment in CSS forum: ponder ON is worse

Author: Volker Pittlik

Date: 03:53:21 09/26/02

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On September 26, 2002 at 06:09:53, Jouni Uski wrote:

>Look at this link: http://f23.parsimony.net/forum50826/messages/49884.htm
>(partly in english)
>I remember always, that Crafty is said to play much better with ponder, but it
>seems to be wrong...

Perhaps you got the message in German wrong. Crafty got 49/100 games in
ponder=off mode and 46/100 in ponder=on mode. This difference is absolutely not
significant. It is absolutely within the error margins of randomness.

In fact this test and some others had never shown a significant difference of
the outcome of tournaments with ponder=on and ponder=off.

Volker



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