Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 01:18:03 02/23/05
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On February 23, 2005 at 03:07:35, Uri Blass wrote: >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. The point of first exit from the book is very important. Many programs give a double time increment on book exit. This is a very clever strategy by GnuChess and I think it may be more valuable than you imagine. Of course, you can only do it in ponder mode.
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