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Subject: Pondering accuracy?

Author: Peter Kappler

Date: 17:26:43 11/12/98



Fellow chess programmers:

My chess programming project for this weekend is to add pondering to my program
and so I'm curious - do any of you keep statistics for how often your program
ponders the correct move?  I recall that Bob Hyatt once said that Crafty ponders
the correct move ~50% of the time.  (Bob - please correct me if I'm wrong.)

It would be particularly interesting to compare the %correct in games versus
computers and games versus humans.  It should be significantly higher in comp
vs. comp games...

It would be neat to compare this percentage for various programs, and see how
these data correlate with the playing strength.  (Only meaningful if the data
were computed from games played against reasonably strong opponents, I
suppose...)


--Peter



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