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Subject: Re: Overly Optimistic Pondering

Author: Bruce Moreland

Date: 16:35:29 06/10/00

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On June 10, 2000 at 14:58:53, Brian Richardson wrote:

>Any suggestions on what tends to cause unrealistic pondering?  I thought I had
>this "fixed", but it is back with the current version of Tinker now that I added
>learning.  The search proceeds normally with a "reasonable" score and a
>seemingly reasonable PV, but then after making a move and pondering for a short
>time the score jumps up dramatically.  Of course, after the opponent makes a
>move and another search starts the score reverts to the "true" value.  I seem to
>recall some mention of this problem (either here on in Crafty somewhere).

I don't remember a discussion of this nature, but if you're searching a position
and get the wrong score, you probably have a bug.

bruce



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