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Subject: Re: Elephant and pondering

Author: Harald Lüßen

Date: 14:01:14 04/12/04

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On April 12, 2004 at 15:39:28, Matthias Gemuh wrote:

>On April 12, 2004 at 13:03:37, Harald Lüßen wrote:
>>
>>The other places with pondering code semm to be right, too.
>>I think I am only doing pondering when it is allowed with
>>the command 'hard'. Default is ponder off.
>>
>>But there are always two threads working: one is collecting the
>>piped input from winboard. The other is thinking, pondering
>>or waiting. The main function is an endless loop with a check
>>for winboard input. May be there is no real wait state
>>like Sleep( 200 ); or something else in the main thread.
>>Is this a problem? Does this behaviour fool the taskinfo?
>>
>>Is there any indication that the next move is better(?)
>>because of pondering?
>>
>>Harald
>
>
>
>It sounds like Elephant is not really pondering,
>but lacks Sleep(1) in its endless loop and simply blocks 50% of opponent's
>CPU power.
>
>/Matthias.

Sorry. I think I have to fix this bug in the next version.
I do not want to steal the time of the other engine. It is
just a result of the novelty of my engine and the lack of
my Windows knowledge.

The Problem is I have to decide to fix the version 1.02 or
1.03 which is still under construction. Every 'improvement'
makes the new version a little bit weaker and I plan to
release a 'better' version than 1.02. :-(

Harald



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