On 11/13/10 20:38, Joost 't Hart wrote: Hi!
> <Zip> >> 3) UCI engines report a mate announcement (instead of a centipawn score) >> if they see a mate. >> In the old days Scid reported the (arbitrarily high) score of 327 for >> any UCI mating line. Actually, internally this is still the case, except >> that in the engine window, the 327 score is translated back into a >> readable "Mate in 3" text. >> For annotation purposes the arbitrary cp score is still used, which >> allows simple numerical comparison to understand that a mating line is >> better than a non-mating line. >> Comparing different mating lines (especially the length of those lines) >> cannot be not done effectively using the cp score alone, since they all >> have the same score of 327. > > Added a fix for this one to cvs. Try it with comment-all-moves. Thank you! :) > The fix does the following: > Mate in 1 is upgraded from 327.0 to 327.50; for each move it > takes longer to reach the mate, 0.01 is subtracted from this upgraded score. > (This fix allows the engine to report an M50 (or M-50) without breaking > the existing engine window break :-) ). I've also allowed the "configure informant window" to set ++- score as high as 328 instead of 9.9 at max. cu Alexander ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Centralized Desktop Delivery: Dell and VMware Reference Architecture Simplifying enterprise desktop deployment and management using Dell EqualLogic storage and VMware View: A highly scalable, end-to-end client virtualization framework. Read more! http://p.sf.net/sfu/dell-eql-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Scid-users mailing list Scid-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scid-users
