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Subject: Re: time savings by single legal instant move

Author: Chris Welty

Date: 01:46:31 07/21/04

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On July 21, 2004 at 03:18:02, Aivaras Juzvikas wrote:

>has anybody got any good ideas what to do with the time saved, when you have
>only one legal move at root position and instead of launching a search, you just
>make that move instantly.
>im askin this question because its very hard to test it (it rarely happens).


When it does happen it's normally just a few moves until mate - so almost any
scheme will have negligible impact on your program's rating. Do whatever's
easiest and work on something that makes more difference :) I spread it over the
remaining moves just as with any other move that takes less than average time.



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