Author: Zheng Zhixian
Date: 06:27:52 03/29/04
Peter Berger wrote in a thread below "Usually programs assume the second move of the PV as being played, and then think as if it were their own move in the meantime. If the expected move gets played indeed, some (loads of at times ) time has been saved - else the time is lost (despite some potentially useful entries in the hashtable). Another approach ( inferior) is to just think as if you were the opponent during ponder and rely on savings from the hashtable you achieved -you get some useful entries in the hashtable anyway, but this can't be an optimal strategy IMHO." I gather from various responses that the first approach is better if you can correctly guess the right response more than 50% of the time. Could someone explain why? Are there other pondering methods besides these 2?
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