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Subject: Re: Have your chess program go for a spin...

Author: Tony Werten

Date: 05:07:04 08/01/01

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On August 01, 2001 at 00:19:13, Dann Corbit wrote:

>I am testing a tool written by Les Fernandez.  It takes a given chess position,
>and transforms it into rotated or mirrored images.  For each position, the
>evaluation should (obviously) be identical.  Also, you would think that the
>depth in plies reached would also be the same.  Funny, but it does not always
>work out that way.  Sometimes, the chess programs I test will even choose a
>different best move than the theoretically predicted one.
>
>How does your program do when analyzing these 4 positions which are "exactly the
>same, only completely different"?
>

I spend some time on this "bug" a couple of months ago. The problem is that when
the board position is different, the order of pieces is different and so will
the order of movegeneration. Therefor different nodecounts and in worse case
different scores can occur.

cheers,

Tony



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