Author: stuart taylor
Date: 20:06:57 09/03/00
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On September 03, 2000 at 22:44:16, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On September 03, 2000 at 22:36:41, William Bryant wrote: > >>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 > > >I use a simple apporach for "level X Y" games on ICC. My target time is >always X/25+Y (x=time left on clock, y=increment). Hiarcs 7.00 (at any rate. 7.01 is the same, and I think 7.32 is too). allocates very intelligently when losing, I think. The more the evaluation drops, the more it searches deeper. Until it is just too much time. But when winning, it is too confident. It doesn't use most of its clock time. It can sometimes even fail high prematurely, and only on next move, fail low. S.Taylor
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