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Subject: Re: time savings by single legal instant move

Author: Aivaras Juzvikas

Date: 02:33:23 07/21/04

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On July 21, 2004 at 05:27:31, Uri Blass wrote:

>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

correct me if im wrong but having only 1 single legal move is usually because
you're in check, thats a threat and more time in this case would certainly help.
if its not a threat then oh well, its not like you lose much.



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