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Subject: Re: Overly Optimistic Pondering Yes +0.5 jumps to say +4.5 in pondering

Author: Brian Richardson

Date: 06:07:05 06/11/00

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On June 10, 2000 at 21:03:38, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>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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