UCI - what should be the value of movestogo

Question

Playing a bullet game(1 min) against UCI engine, I would send these command from GUI

 uci
 setoption name Hash value 256
 isready
 ucinewgame
 position startpos e2e4
 go wtime 60000 btime 60000 movestogo xx

what should be the value of xx?

Documentation says

movestogo – Number of moves to the next time control. If this is not set, but wtime or btime are, then it is sudden death.

But before the game completes how do I know how many moves would be played in the game?

"Number of moves to the next time control.", not "Number of moves to the end of the game" — David, Oct 08 '21 at 10:50

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 06 '21 at 20:47

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In a bullet game, you don't send movestogo. You only do this in case of a game where there is an increment after let's say move 40 where an additional 15 minutes might be added to the clock. Even then, the engine would still need to know, how much time is added after xx moves have gone by to make proper use of the time at its disposal.

answered Oct 06 '21 at 20:47

Jens

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thx! but how to set time for bullet game. if I set wtime,btime without movestogo it won't work – beginner Oct 07 '21 at 08:58
position startpos moves e2e4 is the correct syntax – Jens Oct 07 '21 at 20:20
If I send only startpos moves e2e4 without wtime ,btime stockfish always loses on time. – beginner Oct 08 '21 at 08:53

UCI - what should be the value of movestogo

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