QueensideCastler wrote:intx13 wrote:A simpler way to think about it might be to consider the engine's "strength" as a percentage of its maximum strength. Without pondering, each engine plays at 100% strength. With pondering, each engine plays at 100% strength during its turn and 25% strength during the other player's turn (assuming 25% accuracy in pondering guesses), but each turn is half as long (because only half the CPU time is available). So with pondering, the overall engine strength is only 62.5% of its maximum.How about this scenario - my CPU is 5960X (8 physical cores) if i enable ponder 4 will be asigned to each engine. From my engine testing the predicted move ratio is much higher than 25% it is actually in the 50-60% range, most often 58-63% so lets make it 60%. Can you calculate the difference in performance between 4-core ponder and 100% CPU resource.
Assuming same engine, fixed time per turn, each engine able to use all cores at 100% if available, 0.5*100% + 0.5*60% = 80% – intx13 16 hours ago
In general you can estimate the new strength as 50% + 1/2 * (predicted move accuracy). But this becomes less relevant the more you move away from the theoretical scenario I described in my other answer. If you were running two different engines with no per-move time restriction and those engines might not use all cores to 100% during normal operation, this estimate is meaningless.
It looks like with 60% ponder accuracy it comes with an 20% penalty in overall playing strength, if shared cores![]()
My 5960X is no exception![]()
http://chess.stackexchange.com/questions/9336/permanent-brain
The Proof of the Pudding as they Say :) is...do both Engines with Ponder ON or OFF Search as Deep and as effective ?
From what I can See of it with Ponder ON and the Advantage of Guessing 60%+ of the Opponents moves the Engines Search just as Deep and as effective

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