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

Author: Peter Fendrich

Date: 09:16:12 09/26/02

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On September 26, 2002 at 11:18:41, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>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...

...as many other tests seems to be
Peter




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