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Subject: Re: Very high Shredder eval

Author: Jeremiah Penery

Date: 22:58:38 04/27/05

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On April 28, 2005 at 00:53:03, John Merlino wrote:

>On April 27, 2005 at 22:58:20, K. Burcham wrote:
>
>>4.e4 Kg7 5.Bxg8 Bf7 6.Bxf7 d5 7.Qa6 Rxf7 8.Qe6 h4 9.Qdxd5 Ra7 10.Qe8 Kh7
>>11.Qdg8+ Kh6 12.Qexg6#
>>  +-  (63.91)   Depth: 15/30   00:00:09  5517kN
>
>How can a PV that ends in mate not have a mate score attached to it? That
>doesn't make sense to me at all....

If you don't detect check/mate in quiescence, but a capture move examined there
happens to be a mate, the checkmate symbol may be appended to the line while
displaying the output, when the real search/evaluation has no knowledge of the
checkmate.



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