Author: blass uri
Date: 01:32:18 08/01/00
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On August 01, 2000 at 04:21:13, Terry Ripple wrote: >Hi Uri, > I checked out how many games were lost on time by Fritz6 Light! I'll give you >the amount of moves for each game lost on time by Fritz6 light. > >Lost on Time at: 145,142,136,133,129,128,127,124,123,117,116,and 111 moves out- >of a total of 306 games which is equal to 3.92% that Fritz6 Light lost because >of a time problem. I would like to say that when checking over these games lost >on time that they were actually drawn games. Some of the games were only Kings >and one Rook each on the board and some games there were an additional pawn for >each, besides the rooks. Then there was one game with same colored Bishops and >each had one pawn, but by the position it was a drawn game. And one game where >there was one Rook for each side and one side had a Knight, and there were no >pawns on the board. > >I noticed in these games lost on time that Fritz6 Light had gone about 50 moves >without using any time on the clock because it showed (0) after each of its >moves plus Hiarcs sometimes shows quite a few moves that were made without >showing time used on clock! It would show the same (0) as no seconds used for >the move made! Is this normal? > >Best Regards, >Terry Yes it is normal. I am not sure if 0 means less than 0.5 seconds or less than 1 second. If you have 20 seconds for all the game it is normal to use 0.4 seconds per move. You can lose on time after 50 moves in this case. Fritzs needs a minimal time for every move to clear the hash tables. Hiarcs knows to play faster because it does not need time to retain the hash tables. Uri
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