Author: Kurt Utzinger
Date: 12:47:15 08/23/03
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On August 23, 2003 at 13:51:24, Uri Blass wrote:
>On August 23, 2003 at 13:40:06, Jonas Bylund wrote:
>
>>On August 23, 2003 at 13:24:12, Rajen Gupta wrote:
>>
>>>i'm sure you have tested on a single cpu comp wih ponder off!
>>>
>>>and if so this result is meanigless!
>>>
>>>as i have posted many times that is like asking boxers to fight with one hand
>>>tied behind their backs or sprinters to run a race one legged and then trying to
>>>compare that with the real thing!
>>
>>It is only meaningless in comparing his results to SSDF, ponder=off matches on
>>one cpu are not meaningless. Your comparison to boxers and sprinters are
>>meaningless though, look at how much extra depth (at that timecontrol) the
>>engines get's from pondering... If we say that a doubling of speed adds 50-70
>>elo points and the program is say 2650 with ponder=on then you get a 2600
>>performance with ponder=off which is equivalent to a sprinter missing a toe or a
>>boxer missing a finger :)
>>
>>Jonas
>
>you get even less than it.
>pondering gives less than doubling the speed and maybe gives 30 elo.
>
>the results with ponder on is usually almost the same as the results with ponder
>off.
I agree, there have been enough tests to prove this.
Kurt
>Uri
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