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Subject: Re: Any advice on time management?

Author: Tim Foden

Date: 00:05:29 02/16/04

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On February 16, 2004 at 00:33:24, Russell Reagan wrote:

>On February 16, 2004 at 00:18:19, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>That's why we have "timestamp".
>
>Consider even an engine match on the same machine. If you have 1 minute to make
>1 move, and your search waits until 60 seconds have passed before it stops and
>unwinds and sends off the move, it's too late. So how do you handle this kind of
>thing? Do you assume a time control of 40 moves in 40 minutes to be 41 moves in
>40 minutes?

Just subract a small amount of time from the total time left before making your
calculations.  In GLC it used to be 2 seconds.  Right now I think it's 5
seconds, but I don't think it really needs to be that big.

Cheers, Tim.



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