Author: Jeremiah Penery
Date: 15:18:26 10/15/99
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On October 15, 1999 at 12:47:33, Ratko V Tomic wrote: >I think in the second test you gave the non-pondering program too short time >given the high guess rate the pondering one would have. Namely if the pondering >program [Cp] has Tp time per move and the nonpondering one [Cn] has Tn time per >move, and if the guess rate is G (G=1 if Cp guesses 100% of Cn's moves), then a >fair play requiring same total thinking time per move implies: > > G*Tn + Tp = Tn > >which means that for fair play you need time ratio: > > Tn/Tp = 1/(1-G). > > >If the guess rate is 50% (G=0.5) the Cn needs twice as much time allocated. But >with two Rebels, >G is probably 80% or greater, If you have any evidence to support this, please show it. Otherwise, it is simply a guess. >so the Cn needs at least 5 times >more time per move than the Cp in a fair play. And as G approaches 100% the time >fair play time ratio goes to infinity.
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