Author: Graham Banks
Date: 14:50:10 04/17/05
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On April 17, 2005 at 17:09:32, George Tsavdaris wrote: >On April 17, 2005 at 15:49:50, Graham Banks wrote: > >>On April 17, 2005 at 10:50:17, George Tsavdaris wrote: >> >>>On April 17, 2005 at 06:20:21, Graham Banks wrote: >>> >>>>THE GREAT CM9000 SHOWDOWN! >>> >>>Nice..........! I'm impressed by the position of the default setting. Too >>>bad.... >>> >>>But how did you play with Ponder=ON on a single machine.......... Or it was a >>>Dual.....? >>> >>>And one favour: Can you please e-mail me all the Wb2UCi.eng or the CMP files >>>(depending on what GUI you have run the tournament (really it was Chessbase or >>>Chessmaster's GUI?)), for all the participants you have used for this >>>tournament.....? (In a ZIP file for example........) >>>I want to run the exact same tournament with books or with other opponents >>>too...... >>> >>>gtsavdar@auth.gr >> >> >>Hi George, >> >>the email is on the way! I've included logos also. >>Yes I did use ponder on on a single processor machine to add more interest for >>myself. Experiments previously conducted by Volker Pittlik indicate that >>performances are relatively the same whether you use ponder on or ponder off. >> > >Thanks for the e-mail........! > > Hmmmm, in that case i would prefer ponder to be off, as i'm not sure at all >that this doesn't affect engine performance.........Actually i believe that >Ponder=ON at a single CPU, destoys any comparison that can be done about >engine's strength, but with all engines be the "The King.exe" i'm not sure if >this still exists here.........?!?!?!? I guess since all engines were the same, >then the % CPU all were given, was the same so there wasn't any problem...... Yes - each setting got an equal share exactly, so no problems. Try it yourself and check in task manager to verify, Graham.
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