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What is the time control problem in game playing?

  • A.Choosing the depth at which to apply the evaluation function
  • B.Deciding how long to think about each move
  • C.Ensuring the search completes before the hardware fails
  • D.Synchronising the program's clock with the opponent's

Answer: B

A program with a fixed total time must decide whether the current position deserves more than its share, spending longer on critical positions and moving quickly in simple ones. It is a metareasoning problem: deciding how much to compute is itself a decision. Hardware, clock synchronisation and cutoff depth are different concerns. Allocating a scarce resource across a sequence of decisions, each of unknown importance, is a problem far more general than chess.

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