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Subject: Question: How does your program allocate time?

Author: William Bryant

Date: 19:36:41 09/03/00

I/m working on my time allocation to improve my program's play.

Given a time increment of Game/Unit_Time (or Game/Unit_Time + Increment per
move),  how do you allocate the Unit_Time among individual searches?

At present I'm doing the following.

1. In the opening, (when out of book), I'm allocating 1/64th of the time left
for a search (time_left>>6).

2. When past move 16, I change this to 1/32nd of the time left (time_left>>5).

3. If I fail low at the root, I will allocate up to an additional 5x the initial
time to resolve the fail low.  It may take less, but this is the limit.

Any thoughts, comments, suggestions or discussion would be appreciated.

William
wbryant@ix.netcom.com

• Re: Question: How does your program allocate time? Peter McKenzie 22:20:17 09/03/00
• Re: Question: How does your program allocate time? Robert Hyatt 19:44:16 09/03/00
  • Re: Question: How does your program allocate time? Uri Blass 00:32:41 09/04/00
  • Re: Question: How does your program allocate time? stuart taylor 20:06:57 09/03/00
    • Re: Question: How does your program allocate time? Robert Hyatt 21:37:36 09/03/00
      • Re: Question: How does your program allocate time? Steffen Jakob 23:21:31 09/03/00
        • Re: Question: How does your program allocate time? Peter Fendrich 09:36:36 09/04/00

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