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Subject: Re: Panic Mode

Author: Miguel A. Ballicora

Date: 19:15:03 10/24/02

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On October 24, 2002 at 17:49:17, Uri Blass wrote:

>On October 24, 2002 at 14:41:24, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>On October 24, 2002 at 14:04:07, Fernando Villegas wrote:
>>
>>>I wonder if every or some commercial prorams has the same "panic mode" DB had.
>>>Sometimes I gues they does have one. At leats after some move that does make
>>>them happy, I have observed that time allotment change, depth of the search
>>>deepens and so on. Chris, Ed?
>>>Fernndo
>>
>>
>>I think that since Bert and I first published the "using time wisely" paper in
>>the JICCA
>>many years ago, _everybody_ has been doing that in some form or another.
>
>
>Programs use more time after a fail low and it is a correct decision but I do
>not know about single program that use always more time at slower time control(I
>hope that my next movei is going to be the first)
>
>How much time does your program use for it's move when it is not in book in the
>following situation(assume that the position is the same position and the
>question is only to say when it use more time)
>1)5 hours/1000 moves+1 hour/rest of the game
>2)2 hours/40 moves+2 hours/rest of the game
>3)2 hours/40 moves+10 minutes/40+110 minutes/rest of the game
>4)2 hours/80 moves+2 hour/rest of the game
>5)2 hours/game
>
>Common sense tells me that you should have
>time(1)>time(2)>time(3)>time(4)>time(5)
>
>I suspect that a lot of programs are going to get
>time(1)<time(2)=time(3)>time(4)<time(5)

Gaviota uses 1 > 2 = 3 > 4 > 5
since 2 and 3 are not supported by winboard (and Gaviota is a winboard engine)it
is not that important to implement a difference, at least now.

Miguel


>
>other programs may do another mistake and have as a rule time(3)=time(4)=time(5)
>
>I doubt if you are going to find a single free or commercial program with
>time(4)>time(5)
>
>Uri



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