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Subject: Re: Make your engine crazy.

Author: Slater Wold

Date: 16:59:48 06/22/03

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On June 22, 2003 at 19:57:59, Aaron Gordon wrote:

>On June 22, 2003 at 19:54:55, Slater Wold wrote:
>
>>What the hell is.....
>>
>>>1.Nxb5 axb5 2.Bxb5 Bd7 3.a4 Rh6 4.Qd1 Bg7 5.b4 Qh4 6.Nc7+ Kf8 7.Bxc6 Qxh2#<==-*THAT*?
>>
>>>  ยต  (-1.08)   Depth: 9/41   00:00:06  4592kN
>>
>>
>>That's interesting.
>
>No idea, seen most of the engines I have spurt out weirdness like that here and
>there.. usually at the very end of the PV. It plays the right move, you still
>get the wierdness though. Anyone here know exactly why it does this?

Use 1 CPU and see if it happens.  I am 99.99% sure it's something to do with the
SMP randomness.

I love that....you get an eval+time at one run, and a *completly* different
eval+time on the next run.  It's just the SMP (random) branching, I bet.



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