Author: Steffen Jakob
Date: 00:24:59 02/12/99
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On February 12, 1999 at 02:24:21, Will Singleton wrote: [...] >Here's a quick example. Amateur was playing today against Pharaon (Zchess) on >ICC. It had guessed the move, and was on ply 7 when the opponent moved. Time >was available, and it kept searching, failing low on ply 8, and then making a >better move. However, the opponent chose that moment to disconnect, and then >immediately re-connected, resuming the game. Amateur then had to recalculate >the move without the 5-10 second benefit of thinking on the opponent's time, and >never reached deep enough to get the fail low. It made the bad move, and lost. Did you think about making the hashtable (or at least a part of it) persistent? Maybe even one table-dump for each adjourned game?! You could e.g. compute the adjourned positions if you are not playing, and if the disconnector comes back you will know very much about the position. Greetings, Steffen.
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