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Subject: Re: Question about time.c in crafty

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 15:10:54 07/01/04

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On July 01, 2004 at 16:15:41, Dave Kuntzsch wrote:

>In blitz tournaments I run, Crafty always seems to leave a lot of time on the
>table at the end, so I took look at time.c to see if there was a reason. There I
>ran across the 'USAGE' .rc parameter and decided to specify that as 50 in
>crafty.rc. It made no difference at all. I took a closer look at the code and
>saw this:
>time_limit *= 1.0 + usage_level / 100.0;
>
>If the purpose is to increase the time limit by some percentage, shouldn't there
>be parenthesis around the expression like this?
>time_limit *= (1.0 + usage_level / 100.0);
>
>Please correct me if I'm wrong.
>
>Dave

Nope.  It is done as this
usage/100.
 then result + 1.0

Then multiply time by that amount which can be between .5 and 1.5...

It works for me regularly when I fiddle with this...




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