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

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 12:12:32 09/26/02

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On September 26, 2002 at 12:16:12, Peter Fendrich wrote:

>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


So it seems...



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