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Subject: Re: Variation Board

Author: Tord Romstad

Date: 13:06:37 05/19/05

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On May 19, 2005 at 12:11:57, Matthias Gemuh wrote:

>I don't think a variation board penetrates into QSearch.
>A programmer may implement that and a PV that deep for private debugging,
>but a release version will likely limit PV and variation boards to main
>search.

Why?  I don't see any reason to exclude the QSearch from the printed
PV, and I have always printed the entire PV myself. Unless I have a
bug, the static evaluation of the position at the end of the displayed
PV should always equal the score returned by the search.

>This is because end user is interested only in PV of best moves,
>so to him PV including QSearch is irrelevant and maybe confusing.

Again, I don't understand.  Of course the moves near the end of the
PV are less likely to be the theoretically best moves than the moves
near the beginning of the PV, but this is true even for the main
search.  The QSearch moves in the PV are no more irrelevant or
confusing than the main search moves.

Tord



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