Author: José Carlos
Date: 14:41:59 09/01/99
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On September 01, 1999 at 13:24:03, Jari Huikari wrote: >On September 01, 1999 at 12:33:23, Goette Patrick wrote: > >>Hello, >> >>I'm still surprised to see how computers have "difficulty" to respect the rythm >>of playing that I impose them. I mean : as soon as a game is out of book of >>computers generally ( CM6000, Hiarcs 6.0, Win Chess etc.), these cannot play a >>move every 30 seconds as I want them to do. They can wait sometimes more than 2 >>minutes before playing their next move. How can you explain this ? Do >>programmers want to be sure their machine has not missed a winning move ? >>Technical reasons ? > >In most programs level 30 seconds/move means that average time used for a >move is 30 seconds. When bookmoves are done in much less time, program have >more time for other moves. > >Program also plays better, if it can use only a few time for obvious moves >and save it to more difficult ones. In addition to that, I'd say that it's not a good idea stop the analisys in all the places of the tree. I mean, you can consider necessary to finish analisying a branch of the tree to give an accurate evaluation. For example, I only test the time condition in some places of my program, where I think it can stop the search without missing information. José Carlos. >Perhaps there are programs having also the option that moves would always >take 30 seconds or less? > >BTW: There are several programs which moves every 30 seconds. Not among the >top programs, but some older ones, and some new freeware. You could mail >your wish to authors of CM, Hiarcs and Win Chess too. Perhaps they could >add this kind of feature to their programs. > > Jari
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