RE: [computer-go] Mertin's private 9×9 &

[Stefan Mertin]

Jason House <jason.james.house<at>gmail.com> writes
> I believe that pondering is also more popular today.  How the opponent
> uses their time can affect bot performance as well.

Absolutely,
pondering is very important
e.g. for computer play against humans 
as I erperienced with Suzie in Villach!

But my contest is more a test than a competition:
winning is not as important as finding out the exact playing strength!
Pondering is fuzzy and would confuse these results
more than helping to get reliable results.
So I set pondering disabled and give a high time setting instead
and there is no WIN or LOOSE on TIME result!

Stefan