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Subject: Re: A Report About Life on the Bottom

Author: Ralf Elvsén

Date: 14:32:52 07/05/01

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On July 05, 2001 at 15:21:22, Randall Shane wrote:

>Just a little post to work off frustration with my program, FreeChecking.
>
>I know it's not very good (around 1700-1800 ICC blitz when not broken), and it
>makes up for lack of quality by being slow, and I've been rewriting parts of it
>to simplify the spaghetti mess it had become over a couple of years of very
>intermittent coding, but still...
>
>You know something's wrong somewhere when from the starting position, no book,
>your search gives something like this (fixed 9-ply search) :
>
>
>Move is Ng1-f3[0.23]
> Ng1-f3 Pe7-e5 Nf3xe5 Pf7-f5 Pe2-e4 Pd7-d6 Ne5-f3 Pf5xe4 Nb1-c3
>
>
>I can't believe the final PV that my program is generating.  I would suspect the
>new search, except the old search didn't do any better.  Probably something with
>hashing, evaluation, or something else. :-)

I remember when I just had "improved" my evaluation and the PV that
showed up started with

1.a4 e5 Ra3 Bxa3

Must have been a heavy penalty for trapped rooks or something :)

Anyone else want to join the "worst-PV-from-start-position" contest ?

Ralf



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