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Subject: Re: how to see crafty's tree?

Author: Tord Romstad

Date: 04:28:29 10/06/98

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On October 05, 1998 at 14:15:30, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On October 05, 1998 at 12:19:48, Tord Romstad wrote:
>>I agree that this does not make much sense except for debugging.  However,
>>it would be interesting if Crafty could print the current variation (not
>>the PV, but the line searched at the moment) every second, like for
>>instance TascBase, Chessmaster, Rebel and Marvin (my program) do.  This
>>information is interesting for the user, and in my opinion also useful for
>>the programmer.  You get some idea of what is happening when the program
>>spends a very long time analyzing a single move, and can sometimes help
>>you to improve your move ordering.
>>
>>Tord
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>This I will add, with a "display <option>" to turn it on and off.  Should
>it show the *complete* PV or just the first N moves?

Your choice, of course.   :-)

Personally, I just print the current variation (CV?) to a string, and then
truncate this string at 70 characters.  This prevents the scrolling problem
you describe.

Tord



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