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Subject: Re: XCI (Extensible Chess Interface) - no ponder move please

Author: Reinhard Scharnagl

Date: 03:40:50 03/19/05

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Well, I repeat something I have already written. There is no need to tell the
GUI which ponder move is intended to answer. An unfair GUI will have the chance
to give that information to a friendly engine. A pondering machine should be
free, what it is doing with the in between time. It could use it to calculate an
answer to its internal ponder move, but e.g. also build up temporary tables and
hints. It should be up to the engine itself, to what it would use the
calculating time. Thus communicating ponder moves is to restrictive and overmore
could be misused.

Reinhard.



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