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Subject: Re: Discrepancy between score and PV

Author: Slater Wold

Date: 21:11:22 07/21/03

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On July 21, 2003 at 23:53:48, Normand M. Blais wrote:

>The following position occured in a game between two chess programs (My program
>had white).
>
>[d]r3r1k1/1p3ppp/2n1qn2/p1b1pNB1/3pP3/P2B4/1PP2PPP/R2Q1RK1 w - -
>
>After the game, I decided to let the program analyse the position again just for
>fun. But then I notice that, after finding the correct move, the pv line at
>depth 6 was ending in a checkmate while the score at that depth was 0.02. I
>suspect that this is a bug. Any idea how this could happend?
>
>NMB
>
>Here is the analysis:
>
>  1   -0.09      0        58  a4
>  2   -0.19      0      1404  a4 Rac8
>  3    0.05      0      2401  Qf3 Nd7 Rfd1
>  4   -0.05      2     12896  Qf3 Nd7 Rfd1 Rac8
>  5   -0.04      7     50855  Qf3 Nd7 Rfd1 Rac8 a4
>  6    0.02     23    147187  Bc4 Qxc4 Bxf6 Bf8 Qg4 Qxc2 Nxg7 Bxg7 Qxg7#
>  7    0.15     81    515963  Bc4 Qxc4 Bxf6 Bf8 Qg4 h5 Nh6+ Kh8
>  8    0.02    296   1695515  Bc4 Qxc4 Bxf6 Bf8 Nxg7 Bxg7 Qg4 Qxc2 Qxg7#

Junior does this all the time.  /shrug



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