Author: John Merlino
Date: 18:40:15 03/13/04
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On March 13, 2004 at 21:27:48, Bas Hamstra wrote: >On March 13, 2004 at 21:13:46, John Merlino wrote: > >>On March 13, 2004 at 21:10:30, Bas Hamstra wrote: >> >>>Hi John, >>> >>>I feel honoured and thanks for the lessons :-/ >>> >>>But why you played the match with ponder=off? This might affect timemanagement a >>>bit. Not that the result would have been much different otherwise, I'm afraid, >>>since TheKing is one of the happy few. >>> >>>Bas. >> >>If you would like, I can do the same tournament (or a different one) with >>pondering on. This is no problem, as I run them overnight. >> >>As for time management, I noticed that Tao is a bit liberal with its use of the >>clock. Of course, just about every engine appears liberal next to The King, >>which is notoriously conservative. There were many times when The King had more >>than 10 minutes left on the clock, and Tao had less than 5. >> >>Let me know what you want to do. I have always respected Tao as an excellent >>engine, and a new version definitely begs to be tested. > >The same match with ponder on would be perfect. I suspect the timetrouble will >be a bit less, since most engines are tuned for ponder=on and turning it off can >seriously distort timemanagement. Some have taken measurements to cope with that >(for instance when ponder=off allocate 0.75 of the normal time) but Tao does >not. Also, if possible, could you play with the gui's book? Tao's default book >is small and a bit outdated, I'm afraid. Book learning is the next point on my >agenda... > >Best regards, > >Bas. No problem. I'll start that tournament tonight. Results tomorrow about the same time. -- Ponder=off. -- CM default book for both engines (which should also greatly improve Tao's time usage). jm
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