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Subject: Re: Results from the WT-5 tournament

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 18:27:47 08/29/99

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On August 29, 1999 at 18:39:00, Mark Young wrote:

>
>Yes!!! I agree....as long as both play equally as weak with ponder off and as
>long as both again gain the same with ponder back on. This is what I have found
>under the *chessbase* interface. I have yet to find a program that will win with
>ponder off but not win the same with ponder on playing under chessbase.
>
>I will not jump to the conclusion that other programs that I have not played are
>fine testing this way. But as I have lots of games with the chessbase engines
>under both methods, and here I can see the results match very well using both
>methods of testing.


That's my point..  I _know_ how it affects crafty...  until the time 'surplus'
reaches a threshold value, it is very cautious about extended searches.  And
with pondering off, it will _never_ have a surplus...



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