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Subject: Re: I don't know :-(

Author: Rick Andrews

Date: 04:53:36 04/15/99

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On April 15, 1999 at 06:27:26, Ulrich Tuerke wrote:

>On April 15, 1999 at 05:30:55, Rick Andrews wrote:
>
>>About how much weaker do chess programs play when playing against
>>each other on the same computer?
>>Thanks, Rick Andrews
>
>Assumed that when playing on the same computer/processor, pondering will be
>disabled.Also assumed that programs are doing essentially the same when
>pondering: expect the next move of the last PV and search.
>Pondering enabled can give theoretically a factor of 2 in performance when all
>guesses are hits (you have your and the opponent's time). In this theoretical
>extreme case pondering could make a difference of about 40 - 50 ELO points.
>In practice, there are less hits. So I arbitrarily guess that the difference
>could be 20 - 30 ELO points.
>
>Uli

Now I know !Thanks Uli.
Rick Andrews



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