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Subject: Re: Crafty on dual core

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 09:55:08 11/05/05

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On November 05, 2005 at 08:47:34, Gregory Owett wrote:

>When Crafty plays vs another engine, in adjustment "ponder=off", it is pondering
>and the taskmrg indicates 99% to Crafty and 0% to the other. Even if its
>adversary plays, the indicator gives him 50% and 50% to the other engine,
>whereas Crafty should have 0%.  Does it profit from the time of reflection of
>the other engine?  If not, why it does not release the processor?
>
>Gregory


If you _truly_ have ponder=off, then when crafty is not thinking, it is not
using the CPU.  Unfortunately, some GUIs ignore what is in the
crafty.rc/.craftyrc initialization file and set whatever options they want.  For
example, xboard/winboard likes the "easy/hard" option better and will set
ponder=on or off depending on the command line option, overriding the
crafty.rc/.craftyrc file.

If your GUI has the ability to turn pondering off, do that...



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