Check clock more often

[stockfish] / src / timeman.cpp

diff --git a/src/timeman.cpp b/src/timeman.cpp
index cab0d7671a2e7503c47b2d080a00db98838c5c22..169c7821c943160e4c995e837a084af2e792964f 100644 (file)
--- a/src/timeman.cpp
+++ b/src/timeman.cpp
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 /*
   Stockfish, a UCI chess playing engine derived from Glaurung 2.1
-  Copyright (C) 2004-2022 The Stockfish developers (see AUTHORS file)
+  Copyright (C) 2004-2023 The Stockfish developers (see AUTHORS file)
 
   Stockfish is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
   it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
@@ -36,6 +36,12 @@ TimeManagement Time; // Our global time management object
 
 void TimeManagement::init(Search::LimitsType& limits, Color us, int ply) {
 
+  // if we have no time, no need to initialize TM, except for the start time,
+  // which is used by movetime.
+  startTime = limits.startTime;
+  if (limits.time[us] == 0)
+      return;
+
   TimePoint moveOverhead    = TimePoint(Options["Move Overhead"]);
   TimePoint slowMover       = TimePoint(Options["Slow Mover"]);
   TimePoint npmsec          = TimePoint(Options["nodestime"]);
@@ -59,8 +65,6 @@ void TimeManagement::init(Search::LimitsType& limits, Color us, int ply) {
       limits.npmsec = npmsec;
   }
 
-  startTime = limits.startTime;
-
   // Maximum move horizon of 50 moves
   int mtg = limits.movestogo ? std::min(limits.movestogo, 50) : 50;
 
@@ -96,7 +100,7 @@ void TimeManagement::init(Search::LimitsType& limits, Color us, int ply) {
 
   // Never use more than 80% of the available time for this move
   optimumTime = TimePoint(optScale * timeLeft);
-  maximumTime = TimePoint(std::min(0.8 * limits.time[us] - moveOverhead, maxScale * optimumTime));
+  maximumTime = TimePoint(std::min(0.8 * limits.time[us] - moveOverhead, maxScale * optimumTime)) - 10;
 
   if (Options["Ponder"])
       optimumTime += optimumTime / 4;