Author: Scott Gasch
Date: 14:24:56 05/24/01
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On May 24, 2001 at 16:11:09, David Dahlem wrote: >This may be a dumb question but i am just curious about this. Are chess engines >aware of the opponents clock, whether another engine or a human opponent? Can an >engine be programmed to take advantage of the opponents time trouble? For >instance, stalling, forcing the opponent to repeat moves, etc. in order to win >on time? If so, are there any engines that do this? > Maybe not quite what you had in mind... but my engine is aware of the opponent's clock and whether its a human or computer. It uses this imformation to adjust the value of a draw at the start of each move. (Yes, I am aware there will still be info in the hash table based on stale draw scores but the draw value changes so slowly that I choose to ignore this). If an opponent is in time trouble (different definition for human opponent and computer opponent) the value of a draw becomes very negative so that hopefully it wins on time. Scott
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