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Subject: Re: question about fixing the time management of movei

Author: Scott Gasch

Date: 00:51:37 07/26/04

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>>
>>Bad idea.  Start the next iteration even if you don't think you will have time
>>to finish it.  You might fail low.  Wouldn't that be nice to know?  :)
>>
>
>Assume you have timed out at about the point a faillow has occurred. What
>do you do now with your time? After all, using time wisely... :-)

I set s soft time limit and a hard time limit.  When the soft one runs out I
move unless:

1. I'm resolving a root fail high or fail low
2. I'm searching move 2..N at the iteration (the assumption being that with a
little more time I'll finish the iteration)
3. I've seen a lot of fail lows at the root and think this is an "interesting
position".
4. I'm about to trade down into a KP endgame

etc...

In those cases I keep searching until the situation is resolved or the hard
timer expires.

Scott



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