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Subject: Re: Is this an engine bug in Chessmaster 8000?

Author: Steve Maughan

Date: 11:18:30 11/25/00

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John,

>The engine is not "preferring" a weaker move when it decided on Raf1 (0.00) over
>Nxc7 (+0.65). What is happening here is that the engine is basically saying,
>"Whoops, now that I've looked deeper, Nxc7 actually has a WORSE score than Raf1,
>which I know to be 0.00. So Raf1 is my new PV."
>
>Does that clear it up?

It's not worth spending too much time on this one.

If you setup the position and stick CM on infinity then you'll see that the
swith from Nxc7 to Raf1 is illogical.  Maybe CM doesn't report to the PV like
other programs.

O well let's leave it at that

Steve



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