Author: Dave Gomboc
Date: 16:50:41 10/13/99
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On October 13, 1999 at 12:18:57, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On October 13, 1999 at 03:34:11, Shep wrote: > >>On October 12, 1999 at 13:59:47, Christophe Theron wrote: >> >> >>>>this case 7.5 minutes. In this case I saw instead that Hiarcs, with 1 or 2 >>>>minutes left after move 52, used all its time, with the word TIME appearing on >>>>its clock. I had never seen this before either. In this 8th game it was lost >>>>anyway, but Hiarcs lost on time. >>>> >>>>Enrique >>>> >>>>>Regards, >>>>>Terry >>> >>> >>>Very human-like, this time management! :) >> >>I have seen this often, especially in Hiarcs 6. At move 32, its eval drops from >>+0.1 to -1.5 and it suddenly uses like 30 minutes for that move, so that only 5 >>minutes remain for the last 8 moves. In other words, Hiarcs is the only program >>that really gets into time trouble like a human. >> >>--- >>Shep > > >This still sounds like a _serious_ "bug" to me. -1.5 is not absolutely losing >by any measure. But 5 minutes for 8 moves probably is losing against a good >opponent with way more time. > >A fine line exists between using just enough time to save yourself, and using >too much time and basically leaving the game resignable. A drop from 0.1 to -1.5 is an excellent time to start panicking. Dave
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