Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 17:09:13 05/30/02
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On May 30, 2002 at 19:25:26, William H Rogers wrote: >In the last CCC4 tournement, the time controls were set to one minute per move. >Currently my program only searches to fixed ply depths, so I tried to put in >time controls. In the place where the program looks to see if the ply-max has >been reached, I put in a time limit. The limit works and the program stops >searching and makes a move at the right time. The problem is this, it never >seems to make the same move that it would have if it had used the ply-max cutoff >instead. Quite often the moves are different, and I can not say at this time if >they are better or worse. Is this a normal situation or do I need to do >something different? >Thanks in advance >Bill make sure that when you notice "out of time" you _stop_ backing up scores and PVs in your recursive search stuff. Because you have not finished the search, _none_ of the stuff can be backed up... You have to play the best move you have backed up to the root so far...
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