TT scores better than mate in 1 or worse than checkmate ,how

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MahmoudUthman
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Re: TT scores better than mate in 1 or worse than checkmate

Post by MahmoudUthman »

Sven Schüle wrote:
MahmoudUthman wrote:I think the cause of the wrong behavior is this coupled with me defining Mate0=ShrtMax , which makes scores higher than Mate0 wrong when stored in the tt using as "Short" , when I lowered Mate0 the problem disappeared
So you mean 16-bit integer overflow? That would be an explanation :-)
yes :)