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Subject: Re: Pondering while still in book.

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 00:07:35 02/23/05

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On February 23, 2005 at 00:51:25, Matthew Hull wrote:

>I've noticed that GNUChess ponders from the very first move of the game, even
>though it is still in book.  Is this a usual practice?
>
>Does this give some advantage to the search when the game drops out of book,
>since the hash table may have some relevant entries?

I do not do it in Movei.

Movei is too weak to even consider to implement such stuff that maybe gives 1
rating point.

I think that it is significant work to check for no bugs in such code and in the
same time of working on the code I can get more rating points from implementing
different stuff.

Uri



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