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Subject: Re: A good feature to have!

Author: James Swafford

Date: 15:27:04 09/12/99

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It is possible.  My GUI does this, as I like to monitor
"time allocated," "time left," and "znodes."  I do this to
see how far "over" the alloted time the engine uses, which
may indicate that I don't check time_left often enough.

Problems do arise, though, when the engine decides that it
needs to spend more time, because it's resolving a fail low,
or that it can safely make a move without using all of its
time (found a mate, or the move to make is an obvious
recapture).

--
James



On September 11, 1999 at 17:27:30, Alan Grotier wrote:

>
>A colleage of mine has a Fidelity MACH 3 chess challenger computer.
>One feature I liked was the clock option.
>
>This feature is especially handy if you play the computor at it's higher levels
>and want to be able to walk away from the board for a few minutes.
>While this option is engaged,the computor will display the amount of total time
>it expects to take for the move,and count down the time instead of up,and
>therefore is able to tell you ahead of time approximately how long it will take
>to move.
>
>Salut:Alan





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