Author: George Tsavdaris
Date: 13:47:34 07/25/03
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On July 25, 2003 at 16:28:21, 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 You may be right, but i disagree in your statement "is completely meaningless". Because i believe if Fritz 8 for example, is stronger from Shredder 7 without pondering then it is more possible to be stronger also with pondering. But for proving this we need of course two tournaments with a really huge number of games in each one, one with pondering and one with not. Until then it's better not to talk about if is meaningless or not.
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