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Subject: Re: Crafty and pondering

Author: Peter Berger

Date: 01:27:26 07/20/04

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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.



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