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Subject: Re: Blitz 10 min: Deep Shredder 9.1 wins against top engines.

Author: Tomas Casanovas Martinez

Date: 23:47:35 01/05/06

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Thanks for your explanations, Sedat!

Since the Ponder=on is the same that 'permanent brain' I have checked already
what you suggest. The only significative drop in nods appears when one of
engines playing is Deep Shredder. In this case the decrease of nods is
substantial for both engines.

In all other cases, there is some reduction in the speed, but globally the
number of nodes is clearly higher with ponder 'on'. I think that overall setting
ponder 'on' or 'off' affects the deepth of calculations for each move but,
except for the case of Deep Shredder, the results of my tourneys should have
been basically the same.

On the other side, although I like Perfect 9, perhaps I will use Perfect 8.32,
because I feel that 10 moves is OK for my purposes.

Best regards,

Tom.

On January 05, 2006 at 15:36:52, Sedat wrote:

>Hi Tom,
>
>>The games have been played with ponder 'off'. Do you think that it is better to
>>set ponder 'on'?.
>
>Yes,sure.But i wonder about your hardware if you set with ponder on and then the
>kns(nodes) of the engines will fall down to half or the nodes will be same as
>with ponder off ?!
>
>If they are falling down-thats means you must run the matches with ponder off
>
>For example with my AMD 64 X2 4600 is evrything ok:
>-with ponder on the nodes dont fall down !
>
>>To be honest I do not understand very much the difference. ;-)
>
>Its very important for chess:
>-The both engines always  think !
>
>Please inform me about the ponder results !!!
>
>>By the way, your Perfect 9 book seems to offer an interesting range of options.
>>I like it. Is there any way to limitate the number of moves?. For instance, any
>>way to set the book playing a maximum of 12 moves per engine?. Thanks in
>>advance.
>
>Yes ,its possible to set up to 12 moves,but you must do it manually when you
>create a new tourney,but for easier way i recommend to download
>Perfect v8.32 ctg-its up to maximum 10 moves
>
>
>Best,
>Sedat



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