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Subject: Re: Time usage

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 12:33:50 12/08/97

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On December 08, 1997 at 13:23:51, John Bartkiw wrote:

>Just a quick question on how to decide how long to search on a certain
>move in a game.  Specifically in a sudden death time control.  I can see
>if you have a 40/2 time control you can just simply see how much time is
>left till the control and divive it by how many moves left until the
>control.  But what do you do in a G/x situation?

easiest answer is to search for "remaining_time/N" where N is some
constant.  I use something like 25 I believe... which gives a steadily
decreasing amount of time, but will *never* run out of course, although
it can decrease to a fraction of a second if the game is a couple of
hundred moves long...



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