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Subject: Re: Time and Evaluation

Author: Per Steneskog

Date: 07:49:37 08/14/04

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On August 14, 2004 at 10:26:28, Dan Honeycutt wrote:

>On August 14, 2004 at 07:57:12, Ray Rogers wrote:
>
>>Do any chess programs or DCM's take into consideration the time remaining for
>>each side in their evaluation? Most OTB chess players would at some stage find
>>themselves playing on because of the opponents lack of time.
>
>Time management is integrated with the search, not the evaluation.  To have
>something like "I'm low on time, let me do a quick and dirty evaluation"  would
>probably wreak havoc as you get back scores that are not consistent with what
>you saved in the hash table when you had enough time and did a full evaluation.
>
>Dan H.

No, but you can raise/lower the contempt value depending on clock.

// Regards Per Steneskog



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