Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 20:11:32 10/07/02
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On October 07, 2002 at 18:33:43, Jeremiah Penery wrote: >On October 07, 2002 at 18:29:35, Uri Blass wrote: > >>On October 07, 2002 at 18:19:29, Jorge wrote: >> >>>This may be a dumb question, but could someone tell me the reason for setting >>>Ponder=off in comp to comp matches? If two computers with the same hardware with >>>different, each with a program playing each other, why set ponder off? >>> >>>thnx, >>>jorge >> >>Usually the people who play games with ponder off use only one computer and not >>2 computers. > >Why set ponder off with one computer? The basic idea is that one computer matches are not very informative. You have two choices: 1. Ponder=on. Engines can "steal" time from each other since both will be computing most of the time. Unless one is unlucky enough to not have anything to ponder. For that move, the opponent runs twice as fast. 2. Ponder=off. This might cause poor time utilization as it is an unnatural way to run and is not always very well tested. Either way causes problems. Moral? Use two computers or else don't pay a significant amount of attention to the results.
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