A common time-management bug (n/t)

[Norm Pollock]

Geschrieben von: / Posted by: Norm Pollock at 19 January 2004 22:08:21:

[Norm Pollock]

Geschrieben von: / Posted by: Norm Pollock at 19 January 2004 22:19:09:
Als Antwort auf: / In reply to: A common time-management bug (n/t) geschrieben von: / posted by: Norm Pollock at 19 January 2004 22:08:21:

Sorry about the empty post.
What I was about to say is that I noticed that 3 different winboard engines have virtually the same time management bug when using incremental time management. When using a time control of 1 minute + 1 second per move, with 1 minute left, the 3 engines go into panic mode and move almost immediately. They insist on keeping a reserve of 1 minute (sometimes 59 seconds).
Those 3 wb engines are sos 11.99, dragon 4.5 and nejment 3.07.
In addition francesca mad 0.09 has a variation of this bug. It is very, very reluctant to use time less that 1 minute, but will do so.

[Dann Corbit]

Geschrieben von: / Posted by: Dann Corbit at 19 January 2004 23:16:04:
Als Antwort auf: / In reply to: Re: A common time-management bug (n/t) geschrieben von: / posted by: Norm Pollock at 19 January 2004 22:19:09:

Sorry about the empty post.
What I was about to say is that I noticed that 3 different winboard engines have virtually the same time management bug when using incremental time management. When using a time control of 1 minute + 1 second per move, with 1 minute left, the 3 engines go into panic mode and move almost immediately. They insist on keeping a reserve of 1 minute (sometimes 59 seconds).
Those 3 wb engines are sos 11.99, dragon 4.5 and nejment 3.07.
In addition francesca mad 0.09 has a variation of this bug. It is very, very reluctant to use time less that 1 minute, but will do so.

Playing ultra-fast games is always good for some comic relief.


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[Norm Pollock]

Geschrieben von: / Posted by: Norm Pollock at 20 January 2004 03:51:52:
Als Antwort auf: / In reply to: Re: A common time-management bug (n/t) geschrieben von: / posted by: Dann Corbit at 19 January 2004 23:16:04:

Playing ultra-fast games is always good for some comic relief.

With today's cpu's going 3 GHz, a 1 minute game today is like a 10 minute game 6 years ago (300 MHz computer). And the computer today is cheaper.