Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 18:36:54 10/13/99
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On October 13, 1999 at 19:50:41, Dave Gomboc wrote: >On October 13, 1999 at 12:18:57, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On October 13, 1999 at 03:34:11, Shep wrote: >> >>>On October 12, 1999 at 13:59:47, Christophe Theron wrote: >>> >>> >>>>>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! :) >>> >>>I have seen this often, especially in Hiarcs 6. At move 32, its eval drops from >>>+0.1 to -1.5 and it suddenly uses like 30 minutes for that move, so that only 5 >>>minutes remain for the last 8 moves. In other words, Hiarcs is the only program >>>that really gets into time trouble like a human. >>> >>>--- >>>Shep >> >> >>This still sounds like a _serious_ "bug" to me. -1.5 is not absolutely losing >>by any measure. But 5 minutes for 8 moves probably is losing against a good >>opponent with way more time. >> >>A fine line exists between using just enough time to save yourself, and using >>too much time and basically leaving the game resignable. > >A drop from 0.1 to -1.5 is an excellent time to start panicking. > >Dave Yes... but with caution. -1.5 isn't necessarily losing. Time == 0 is absolutely losing. You have to weigh those two opposing issues and come up with something that doesn't turn a possible draw/loss into a definite loss...
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