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better time management ? #13

Open tissatussa opened 1 year ago

tissatussa commented 1 year ago

hi, playing again some 15 min. games with Honse in CuteChess GUI, it always happens your engine loses on time .. probably in the middlegame it searches many nodes and doesn't regard its remaining time .. this way, playing with Honse isn't realistic, whatever its strength ..

Honse may play a poor game, 'cause its yet a simple engine, but i think time management is the biggest bottleneck at this development stage .. are you working on that ? At least stop calculating after some fixed time by returning the "best move until now" ?

crippa1337 commented 1 year ago

Hey.

When I wrote the time management I made it as simple as possible as that was not the focus of that patch, but rather just make some functioning search. As the current interest in Honse seems quite low in the community I don't think the development will go far in the near future unfortunately.