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Subject: Re: Tournament- 7/03, 60 min +2 sec - finished

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 13:41:03 07/25/03

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On July 25, 2003 at 16:26:33, Rajen Gupta wrote:

>any eng vs eng match with ponder off is completely meaningless and without any
>value: the results obtained do not in any way correspond with roughly equivalent
>time control when 2 computers/processors are used with ponder on!
>
>it is like have a race between runners who have one leg tied behind their back
>and have to hop on one leg or a boxing match in which the competitors are
>allowed to use only 1 hand.
>
>rajen

Nonsense.

usually there is no big difference between results with ponder on and results
with ponder off.

I also think that most of the engine-engine match are played with ponder off
so maybe matches with ponder on are meaningless for most users and the only
meaning that they have is an estimate for the strength with ponder off.

Uri




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