Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 18:03:38 06/10/00
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On June 10, 2000 at 19:35:29, Bruce Moreland wrote: >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 I think he meant the case where the score was +.5, but when you start pondering the score jumps to +5, because the move you are pondering is bad. Doesn't happen often, but I see it from time to time...
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