Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 10:59:47 10/12/99
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On October 12, 1999 at 04:56:38, Enrique Irazoqui wrote:
>On October 12, 1999 at 00:12:14, Terry Ripple wrote:
>
>>What happened in this game that Hiarcs would lose on time? I experienced that
>>Hiarcs can move instantly when it needs to with no lose of time!!!
>
>When Hiarcs panics, as it happened in this game with an evaluation of -8.xx
>while computing the last move that didn't play, at times the game is interrupted
>and a "timeout" message appears on screen showing the eval and Hiarc's side. I
>think that Hiarcs times out when it uses more than 15x the average time/move, in
>this case 7.5 minutes. In this case I saw instead that Hiarcs, with 1 or 2
>minutes left after move 52, used all its time, with the word TIME appearing on
>its clock. I had never seen this before either. In this 8th game it was lost
>anyway, but Hiarcs lost on time.
>
>Enrique
>
>>Regards,
>>Terry
Very human-like, this time management! :)
Christophe
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