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Subject: how much time should I spend in a search ?

Author: mel

Date: 14:40:12 08/10/03


hi ,

	I'm the author of a very new ( and - still - very bad engine , I'm still in the
second year of University , so I don't know that much yet ... hash tables for
example , I've learned it last semester ) chess engine , and I'm writing now the
timing code for the engine ( you can see I'm still beggining .. hehe ) .
	I wanted to ask if someone could explain me how much time should I spend in
each search ?
	Given a TIME game ( wich TIME can be 5, 10 , 15 , .... inf minuts ) , how much
time should I spend in each move ? Should I simply divide the TIME by the number
of moves I'm guessing I would do (a contanstat them)? Or you usually analyse the
current game status and give diferent times for diferente chess positions ( wich
seems better than giving a constant amount of time for each move ) ? And , if so
, what should you consider ? Branch fator ? N of captures ?

	Well , thanks for you time and patience .

	This is my engine homepage . Don't dowload it unless you really want to give it
a shot !! (soooo many bugs ... be patinent , please . But it does play chess !
hehe )
	http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~ra017335/go2chess

	You should get the development version , wich is the most updated one.

	http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~ra017335/go2chess/go2chess-dev.tar

	Cya



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