hi Ruud

'Close call, a tie is a good thing.
a very good thing
it seems the Res and Tasc's are very very close
the Tasc however will never get any better and the Res will ONLY get better

So for a '30 minutes / all' i program Ruffian before every move with the info that it has 5 moves left and calculate the remaining time for it.

to be honest i think you have already enabled the Res to play a correct "ALL' game
this is to say the user can set the "ALL" to 98 moves(it will switch back to 20 after 98 and does not allow 99)

i think its correct to set this once and not manipulate it after every move


there are several computers mainly Saiteks which consider an "ALL" game to be ALL /99
some computers even offer choices like this when switching levels:
5/99
10/99
30/99 etcetc

however i used the 60 moves for all games ..i had no time over steps

How long were the average thinking times of the Resurrection and the R40 in a 30 minute match ? Did Resurrection lose games on strange time behavoour during game play ?

R40 moved quicker ..avg was about 30-45 seconds per move
it never took more then 90 seconds for a move

Res avg move was about the same.however it would sometimes go into 'DEEP " thinks taking as much as 3 minutes a move
this happenned about 3-4 times in the 5 games
but it had nothing to do with the time control..this "DEEP" thinking could occur right out of the opening,or even in the endgame

in game 3 which had an early exchange of queens it did not once go into a "DEEP " think

"Deep" Sjeng Regards
Steve