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+While the opponent is looking for a move, instead of sitting idle, guess their most likely move and start analyzing the resulting position.
+  * If we guess right, we have a head start searching;
+  * if we guess wrong, we have wasted no time and will have at least somewhat populated the transposition tables.
+More useful against humans, and engines running on separate machines.
+  * On the same machine, each engine will disrupt the other with their pondering efforts, resulting in a lot of noise.