Author: Andrew Williams
Date: 03:50:48 01/10/99
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On January 10, 1999 at 04:10:44, Horace Ho wrote: >Assume 40 seconds for each move. >After finished ply x, I have 25 >seconds left. > >Should I process to ply x+1 (the >extra ply will exceed time for >sure)? > >Or should I just return from a >partial finish ply x+1 when time's >up (i.e., at 40th second)? > This is a good question. What I do in PostModernist is check to see if I've got at least 2.5*timeTakenForLastIteration left. If not, I assume I won't finish the next iteration, so I just stop at this point. The 2.5 comes from the fact that in PM, the branching factor seems to average out at around 3. If your branching factor is significantly different, you should choose another multiplier. What do others do? Andrew
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