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

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 08:18:41 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...
>
>Jouni


That simply shows that the test is invalid.  Do you _really_ think that by
saving time when a ponder search is correct, that _hurts_ the engines's chess
skill?  Do you _really_ think that giving crafty more time makes it play
_worse_?

It is just a flawed test...

• Re: Crafty ponder experiment in CSS forum: ponder ON is worse Peter Fendrich 09:16:12 09/26/02
  • Re: Crafty ponder experiment in CSS forum: ponder ON is worse Robert Hyatt 12:12:32 09/26/02

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