Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 21:18:19 02/15/04
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On February 15, 2004 at 18:22:32, Russell Reagan wrote: >On February 15, 2004 at 17:47:45, Matthias Gemuh wrote: > >>In all cases remember to keep a safety time margin to avoid losses on time. >>Where appropriate, this margin could be enough time to make 2 extra moves >>or some small percentage of total time. > >I think it would be especially important to keep a reserve time in x moves/y >minutes. For instance, say you are down to 1 move to go and 1 minute left. So >your program uses the 1 minute left, decides on a move and sends it off to the >internet chess server. Of course it takes a few milliseconds to get to the chess >server, so you might lose on time. That's why we have "timestamp". :)
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