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

Author: Scott Gasch

Date: 09:32:37 07/26/04

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On July 26, 2004 at 09:02:59, José Carlos wrote:

>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.

I guess a little of both.  Also I have seen some positions where I fail high on
one move and resolve it with another move.  Something interesting is going on
and I have more time to use... so I use it.

The only thing I think about changing is that "don't move while searching moves
2..N" because sometimes I see games where it hurts me (causes me to take the
whole hard time window just to search moves 2..N).  But it's still in there :)

Scott



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