Once more: a Superior Performance as MP via Ponder ON!
# PLAYER : RATING POINTS GAMES (%) 1 Ponder ON 8CPU : 3749.7 380.5 600 63.4% 2 Ponder ON 6CPU : 3719.6 399.5 670 59.6% 3 Ponder ON 4CPU : 3670.6 326.5 600 54.4% 4 Ponder ON 3CPU : 3639.1 302.0 600 50.3% 5 Ponder ON 2CPU : 3574.9 309.0 650 47.5% 6 Ponder OFF 4CPU : 3569.5 385.5 836 46.1% 7 Ponder ON 1CPU : 3500.0 295.5 700 42.2% 8 Ponder OFF 1CPU : 3435.3 187.5 516 36.3%•Blue Name = Permanent Brain as Disabled / CPU = Physical Cores
Some Notes: • Target to determine Deep (MP) strength, influence of Permanent Brain • Also Arena GUI, plus Shredder Classic GUI used (via Auto232 mode) • All participants played by same engine: Brainfish 151019 Contempt 40 • 1CPU are used to play with 256 MB Hashtable size, rest with 512 MB... • As usual, for each player is installed a separate copy of Branfish.exe • Overall draw percentage (based on 2586 games) is not so high: 67% • Download all the played games (up to 03.05.2020): SCCT Deep Brain