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Subject: Re: 40/120 Mega Tournament 2005 Underway, featuring Shredder 9

Author: Dimitris Poulos

Date: 08:17:31 02/19/05

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On February 19, 2005 at 11:08:09, Ray Banks wrote:

>On February 19, 2005 at 11:02:14, Dimitris Poulos wrote:
>>>Why "ponder on"?
>>
>>Most probably to simulate actual synthikes?
>>
>>Dimitris
>
>Exactly - in human tournaments, we ponder. We don't walk away from the chess
>table or close our eyes when it is the opponent's move, so ponder on is
>absolutely the best way to run a tourney if you have the necessary dual
>processor machine to do it.

One question here Ray, an off topic one,
why don't you use List5.12 in your tournament? Is it the philology of it being a
clone or just that you already use many free engines?(I don't support the first
case)

Dimitris




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