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Subject: Re: To Christophe Theron - multivariation mode in CT15 is buggy.

Author: Lex Loep

Date: 09:05:24 09/30/02

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On September 29, 2002 at 15:37:50, George Sobala wrote:

>Christophe
>
>I think the multivariation setting of ChessTiger 15 is buggy. Here is what
>happens.
>
>What I did:
>
>- I loaded a PGN of a game to analyse it
>- I clicked on the '+'  button in the engine window three times to bring up 4
>multi-variations
>- I clicked on the 'brain' icon to turn analysis mode on
>- I stepped through the game looking at ChessTigers analysis
>
>What happened:
>
>When it was White's move I saw 4 variation, with up-to-date analysis as time
>progressed (i.e. all reached 10 ply together, then 11 ply etc etc). This is how
>I would expect it to work.
>
>However when it was Black's move I only saw variations added if they were better
>than the previous best move: e.g. the top variation would be the up-to-date
>analysis of the best move for example to 13 ply, but the second line could
>contain only the move rejected at 6 ply, never subsequently updated, and the
>third and fourth lines never filled in at all in some cases.
>
>I hope I have explained this well enough

Have you tried raising the Multivariation threshold, its default is
one pawn. It may be the other moves score below the threshold. You can find
this setting under the Engine properties.

Lex



>
>Great engine though!
>
>George Sobala



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