Author: Tijs van Dam
Date: 14:46:48 02/08/00
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On February 08, 2000 at 10:09:27, William Bryant wrote: >I need some recomendations on handling time management when the program >fails low at the root near the end of the alloted search time. >(During game play, not during test suites) > >How do people handle this? > >Do you research the PV move at the lower window (which will return a >move and a score) and then stop? > >Or, do you need to search all the root moves at the lower score to determine >which is truly the best move? > >The later makes more sense, but may consume a significant chunk of additional >time which the program may or may not have. > >Thoughts, ideas and suggestions gratefully accepted. > >William >wbryant@ix.netcom.com And here's another question: what do you do when you discover, e.g. during pondering, that you have already made the wrong move. So a depth 10 search returned 0.38, but pondering the opponents move, at depth=9 you get a score of -2.15. You bite your teeth and hope he won't find the right answer, but unfortunately he is also a computer and has found out exactly the same as you have. He makes the move. Now, you have a choice. Do you accept the loss, probably losing the game, or do you take extra time, hoping that searching extra deep will win you back the piece? Tijs
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