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Subject: Re: Question about pondering

Author: Matthias Gemuh

Date: 14:54:03 02/15/04

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On February 15, 2004 at 17:44:05, Drexel,Michael wrote:

>Why do many (all?) chess engines continue to ponder a move after a huge fail
>high?
>They found most likely the refutation of the ponder move.
>Why don't they start to ponder another move instead?
>That does not make any sense to me.
>
>Michael





Because pondering is difficult to implement.
Most programmers already rejoice to see simple pondering bug-free and
functioning as expected.

/Matthias



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