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Subject: more info and another question

Author: James Swafford

Date: 09:06:18 09/13/02

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[D] r1bq2rk/pp3pbp/2p1p1pQ/7P/3P4/2PB1N2/PP3PPR/2KR4 w - -

You can see from the position above and the search output that this
is a simple mate.  Somehow the program must see the mate during
iteration 2, hence the fail high at the root (it was searching with
a window of +/- 1 pawn of the previous score of 15).

After the fail high, the search is restarted with a window of
15,+infinity, but Qxh7 doesn't do so well on the research (it gets
a -675), so it doesn't get backed to the pv, the rest of the moves
fail low, and I have to start a search in iteration three.

I find it odd that the program could see Qxh7 was good enough to
fail high, but on the research failed low.  How frustrating. :)

Is this common, or do I have a bug?
--
James


Problem 1:
r1bq2rk/pp3pbp/2p1p1pQ/7P/3P4/2PB1N2/PP3PPR/2KR4 w - - h6h7;

parsing: h6h7...done.
correct move(s): h6h7
FW Dpth   Nd Cnt    CSecs  Score PV Line
 1& ->        15        0   -570 h6g7 g8g7
 1& ->       216        0     10 h6g5 g6h5
 1& ->       589        0     15 h6f4 d8e8
 1  ->      2299        6     15 h6f4 d8e8
 2& ->      3373        6     15 h6f4 d8f6 f4f6
 2& ->      6558       11    +++ h6h7
 2& ->      7149       11    ---
 2& ->      7150       11     15 h6f4 d8f6
 2  ->     27746       39     15 h6f4 d8f6
 3& ->     32509       44     20 h6f4 g6h5 f4f7 g7h6
 3& ->     74189       94    +++ h6h7
 3& ->     75366       99  59997 h6h7 h8h7 h5g6
 3  ->     77892       99  59997 h6h7 h8h7 h5g6




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