Newbie question about PVS zws verification
Posted: Sun Jun 19, 2011 6:05 pm
Hi,
I have a question about the researches in a PVS framework.
Situation:
I run a search up to 14 ply on the initial position (no book). I'm considering the moves and the returned scores at the root node.
The lower ply searches give e2e4 and sometimes d2d4 as best move. Ply 13 has e2e4 at the end.
So the Ply 14 search is started with e2e4 first. It gets a score of +9.
The other moves are searched with a 0 window. When it comes to d2d4 the 0 window search fails high with a score of +10, so a research is done and the research then only gives a score of +9 (so it does not increase alpha).
Is this a bug or just bad luck ? I read somewhere in post from Bob that false fail highs indicate a bug (but is a 0 window fail high a real fail high ?)
The research burned a lot of nodes (more than the 1.st move of that ply) and just lead to nothing.
My explanation for the research requiring more nodes is that the TT favors e2e4 because that was the pv at ply 13 and d2d4 did not cause a research on ply 13 so the TT contains probably less useful entries for d2d4. But that's just an idea.
Thomas...
I have a question about the researches in a PVS framework.
Situation:
I run a search up to 14 ply on the initial position (no book). I'm considering the moves and the returned scores at the root node.
The lower ply searches give e2e4 and sometimes d2d4 as best move. Ply 13 has e2e4 at the end.
So the Ply 14 search is started with e2e4 first. It gets a score of +9.
The other moves are searched with a 0 window. When it comes to d2d4 the 0 window search fails high with a score of +10, so a research is done and the research then only gives a score of +9 (so it does not increase alpha).
Is this a bug or just bad luck ? I read somewhere in post from Bob that false fail highs indicate a bug (but is a 0 window fail high a real fail high ?)
The research burned a lot of nodes (more than the 1.st move of that ply) and just lead to nothing.
My explanation for the research requiring more nodes is that the TT favors e2e4 because that was the pv at ply 13 and d2d4 did not cause a research on ply 13 so the TT contains probably less useful entries for d2d4. But that's just an idea.
Thomas...