Author: Ed Schröder
Date: 23:18:52 10/07/99
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>Posted by Robert Hyatt on October 07, 1999 at 14:12:53: > >>Strong points Bob. Still people are in love with the system as you only >>need one PC and have a lot of fun. If only its results are judged in the >>way it should. And in no way you can compare eng-eng matches on 1 PC with >>eng-eng matches on 2 PC's. >> >>Ed >> >>PS, match score sofar PB_ON vs PB_OFF 17.5 - 8.5 > > >I suspect you are going to get a 100+ point difference. When I first started >running Crafty on ICC, I was experiencing the usual "scanf()" buffering issue >with winboard and couldn't get pondering to work right, although it was fine >in text mode without xboard. When I got it right, crafty's rating instantly >jumped by about 120 rating points, maybe more. When I would turn it off, down >it would go by the same amount. I have, as a result, generally credited >ponder=on with roughly 120 rating points. Be interesting to see how your >results end. You are at about the 120 point level yourself, so far, if my >mental calculations are anywhere near right, winning 2 of every 3 games. 3 of >every 4 gets to +200, so maybe you are closer to 160 than 120... we will >see... Right. It is now 34.5 - 20.5 in favor of the PB=ON version. Other people can do the very same with other programs. I truly believe that results will differ for each program as every programmer has programmed the benefits of the PB in a different way. Ed
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