Author: Jeremiah Penery
Date: 19:38:03 11/10/02
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On November 10, 2002 at 21:29:43, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On November 10, 2002 at 21:15:07, Jim Bumgardner wrote: > >>Which of these strategies for "think on opponent's time" makes more sense? >> >>A) To only search the top-move from the principle variation. If >>the opponent makes that move, continue searching, otherwise reset and >>search again. > >This is the _only_ way to do it. I've explained this many times, but it >is probably time to go it again... For the general case. But it shouldn't be hard to find situations where it's very easy to tell the ponder move is probably wrong. In those cases, it's obvious, IMO, that switching to a different ponder move would help. One possible scenario is when the ponder move keeps failing high - either the ponder move is wrong, or you ponder some other move and you'll find the fail-highs again anyway if they play the original ponder move. Otherwise, you'll have a better chance of pondering on a better move. You could always save the result of the first ponder search just in case.
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