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Subject: Re: Pondering ("think on opponent's time")

Author: Russell Reagan

Date: 19:41:06 11/10/02

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On November 10, 2002 at 21:29:43, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>This means that 1/2 of the time, you will
>predict correctly and when your opponent moves, you have an instant response
>ready.

Have you ever seen instances where one engine dominated another by always
pondering the correct move? I wonder how valuable this would be. For example one
example of why this might not be THAT effective, if you are essentially able to
search for twice as long (meaning you have double time odds), that's only worth
one extra ply if you're effective branching factor is 2, right? So most of the
time you won't even get an extra ply, and at the depths reached at tournament
depths, an extra ply might not even be decisive IF you were able to reach it.
So, how valuable is guessing the opponents move in practical play?

Russell



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