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

Author: Volker Pittlik

Date: 05:07:00 09/26/02

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On September 26, 2002 at 07:40:26, Harald Faber wrote:

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>So the programmers should consider playing without permanent brain, this should
>reduce the chances of hash collisions etc. And it does not weaken the engine.
>Only pros, no cons, think about it. :-)

Weakening the engine by setting ponder off and playing tournaments where all
opponents use ponder=on or ponder=off are two complete different circumstances.

The test tried to analyse if results of tournaments with different settings are
comparable. No word about both settings are playing at equal strengths.

How long will it take until the last will stop to cunfuse this issues?

Volker






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