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

Author: Sune Fischer

Date: 01:00:01 11/12/02

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On November 12, 2002 at 03:49:23, Uri Blass wrote:

>On November 12, 2002 at 03:47:16, Uri Blass wrote:
>
><snipped>
>>I  may suspect part of the cases when the moves is in the 40% mainly when the
>>main move fail low but also when I see another move fail high again and again
>>even if the score suggest that the move that fail high again and again is 0.01
>>pawns lower than the best move.
>
>I mean here that you have fail low again and again because you search after the
>move and not before the move.
>
>Uri

If you fail low again and again that should confim you are pondering the right
move, I think. It must mean you picked a move that was good for the opponent.

Failing high on the other hand, probably indicates that this is too good to be
true, one should go back and try a different thing to ponder, since the opponent
probably has something better.

I actually see this (too often) when it ponders, after going into ponder mode
the score can jump up like crazy, that's when I know it's not going to be a
ponder hit ;_(

The opposite also happens of course, once and a while the score drops on a fail
low, that is when I cross my fingers and start praying the opponent will cause
it to be a ponder miss :)

-S.



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