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Subject: Re: Ponder in chess engines

Author: Harald Lüßen

Date: 11:19:33 02/20/06

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On February 19, 2006 at 15:29:20, Bahram Namjou wrote:

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>Thank you Harald...can you also compare the infinite analysis with pondering and
>why the best predicted move doesn't change during pondering in many top
>engines?...regards...bn

Analysing is about the current move, pondering is about the next
opponents move or own move. Another difference is in the state machine.
The reactions to input or timeouts may be different.

Sorry, I do not know what top engines do and which information
they submit to the GUI.

Harald



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