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Subject: Re: time savings by single legal instant move

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 02:27:31 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.
>meybe it would be wise to add the saved time to the next move so you search it
>for twice as long as you would normally.
>im askin this question because its very hard to test it (it rarely happens).

I do not understand your problem.

Every move you get a new time control and decides about the time management
based on the new time control and the position.

If you had 34 seconds for 4 moves and played a move instantly then now your new
time control is 34 seconds for 3 moves.

Using constant time for moves is also not logical and it is important to use
more time after fail low.

I also do not use constant time per move for other reasons and I try to stop in
most cases at the end of the iteration and the idea is that at the end of the
iteration the program cannot change it's mind quickly because it needs to search
the move that it plans to play first so if the program needs a long time to
change it's mind then it is good to play immediately and not waste time.

Uri



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