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Subject: Re: Features needed by most/all chess programs

Author: Roger D Davis

Date: 17:35:29 11/04/99

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You should also be able to specify an approximate total time that a program
would spend analyzing a game. If I leave the house for four hours, for example,
I want the program to calculate about how much time it should spend on each
move.

Roger


On November 04, 1999 at 20:18:40, Robert Pawlak wrote:

>It is a shame that none of the programs available today allow you to pause the
>analysis of a game. Let's say you've started analyzing a game, and you want to
>go online. You have to put your program into the background, and dilute the
>strength of the engine (assuming you are not using ply-depth analysis). What
>about a nice little pause/resume button that you can hit before/after you've
>read your e-mail?
>
>The same goes for pausing a game in progress. You should be able to stop the
>program, then come back the next day and finish where you left off... A few
>programs offer a feature like this, but many do not (i.e. they forget the game
>time, or force you to assign a result to the game).
>
>Bob P.



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