From 50c1c5e25852668a5de357b6aec15a1fbc9b229c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: PGG106 <giuseppepagano10@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2024 21:23:15 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Align TM code for X+Y to the one used for cyclic time
 controls (#297)

Elo   | 4.52 +- 3.83 (95%)
SPRT  | 40.0+0.40s Threads=1 Hash=64MB
LLR   | 2.89 (-2.25, 2.89) [0.00, 3.00]
Games | N: 14612 W: 3473 L: 3283 D: 7856
Penta | [16, 1499, 4094, 1673, 24]

Bench: 7202844
---
 src/time_manager.cpp | 10 ++++++----
 src/types.h          |  2 +-
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/time_manager.cpp b/src/time_manager.cpp
index 62e1d9f3..52b9e683 100644
--- a/src/time_manager.cpp
+++ b/src/time_manager.cpp
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ void Optimum(S_SearchINFO* info, int time, int inc) {
     else if (info->timeset && info->movestogo != -1) {
         // Divide the time you have left for how many moves you have to play
         const auto basetime = time / info->movestogo;
-        // Never use more than 80% of the total time left for a single move
+        // Never use more than 75% of the total time left for a single move
         const auto maxtimeBound = 0.75 * time;
         // optime is the time we use to stop if we just cleared a depth
         const auto optime = std::min(0.7 * basetime, maxtimeBound);
@@ -33,10 +33,12 @@ void Optimum(S_SearchINFO* info, int time, int inc) {
     // else if we recieved wtime/btime we calculate an over and upper bound for the time usage based on fixed coefficients
     else if (info->timeset) {
         int basetime = time / 20 + inc * 3 / 4;
+        // Never use more than 75% of the total time left for a single move
+        const auto maxtimeBound = 0.75 * time;
         // optime is the time we use to stop if we just cleared a depth
-        int optime = basetime * 0.6;
-        // maxtime is the absolute maximum time we can spend on a search
-        int maxtime = std::min(time, basetime * 2);
+        const auto optime = std::min(0.7 * basetime, maxtimeBound);
+        // maxtime is the absolute maximum time we can spend on a search (unless it is bigger than the bound)
+        const auto maxtime = std::min(3.0 * basetime, maxtimeBound);
         info->stoptimeMax = info->starttime + maxtime;
         info->stoptimeBaseOpt = optime;
         info->stoptimeOpt = info->starttime + info->stoptimeBaseOpt;
diff --git a/src/types.h b/src/types.h
index e8d7dcd2..7ac8aa7c 100644
--- a/src/types.h
+++ b/src/types.h
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 #include <cstdint>
 
-#define NAME "Alexandria-5.1.14"
+#define NAME "Alexandria-5.1.15"
 
 // define bitboard data type
 using Bitboard = uint64_t;