Author: Peter Berger
Date: 01:27:26 07/20/04
Go up one level in this thread
On July 20, 2004 at 04:19:14, Kurt Utzinger wrote: > Hi Graham > Is this a further proof that there is a significant > difference in playing strength of Crafty between > ponder=on/ponder=off. Should this indeed be the case > it would perhaps be better to cancel Crafty 19.15 SE > in our coming AT 2004 tournament. I do not like to > produce bad results for an engine when it is known > that our playing conditions (ponder=off) do handicap > Crafty. > Kurt [http://www.utzingerk.com] Volker Pittlik did an experiment some time ago: http://www.pittlik.de/winboard/ponder.html I don't know a good reason why Crafty should be more handicapped by ponder=off than other engines. If I were you I'd just start with the tournament - there will always be other possible setups that some will prefer.
This page took 0 seconds to execute
Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700
Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.