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

Author: José Carlos

Date: 06:02:59 07/26/04

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On July 26, 2004 at 08:05:39, Daniel Clausen wrote:

>On July 26, 2004 at 03:51:37, Scott Gasch wrote:
>
>>>>
>>>>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
>
>Just curious, why do you want to resolve a root fail high? To verify it's really
>a fail-high?
>
>Sargon

  Or to get a move to ponder, possibly...

  José C.



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