Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 09:56:16 10/28/02
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On October 28, 2002 at 10:43:04, Bob Durrett wrote: > > >It seems to me that it should be a trivial programming task to make the program >manage it's time properly. > >Why, then, do chess engines lose on the clock? > >Bob D. It can actually happen, because the resolution of the clock is finite, and with enough moves in a game, a program can simply get into trouble. IE if you do things like learning and so forth, those take a small amount of time. if you get down to where you want to use say one millisecond per move, the learning might cause you to overstep that. it shouldn't happen often, but in sudden-death it can happen...
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