Author: Andrew Williams
Date: 06:33:02 07/17/00
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On July 17, 2000 at 08:57:06, Jan Pernicka wrote: > Hi, >my question today is: How to control the time of computer's thinking (from the >programmers point of view). Especially interesting is this problem: You have >alloted fixed time for the whole game (say, 15 mins). How to decide how many >time we will "give" to computer for 1 move? Possible answer is to overestimate >the lenght of the game (e.g. it will last 100 moves - then we give 15/100 mins >for 1 move - we suppose no pondering), but sometimes it's not so. >(Do you remember any marathon game? :). > Thank you in advance for your ideas and comments. > Jan > >PS: And enjoy summer... >PS2: (For Australians): enjoy winter and also Olympic games My program has a simple approach. For most of the game I divide the time remaining by 30. Towards the endgame I divide the time remaining by 20. (30 and 20 might not be exactly right, but you get the idea). Cheers Andrew
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