Two Queries On Toga II 1.4 Beta 5c

[Michael Neish]

Hi,

A couple of quezzies. I appreciate any help. Thanks.

1) I've been tinkering with the Toga code lately, and when I ran it on Arena, I noticed that Arena is not displaying any search data on the screen at all, such as the PV, NPS data, etc. I thought perhaps that I had broken something, so I compiled the original code and discovered that the same happens. Has this come up before, and is there a fix? I'm using wxDev-C++ on Windows XP, which uses the Mingw compiler.

2) Something else I've noticed with this version of Toga is that during search the score given for the PV is often very close to zero, and lingers there for a long time, even though an engine playing against it might be score +1 or even +2. It led me to suspect that there may be a bug somewhere; although the strength of play would suggest otherwise. Has this also come up before, and is there an explanation?

Thank you, and regards,

Michael Neish.

[jarkkop]

Why not download from
http://www.superchessengine.com/toga_ii.htm
same version and compare it to your compile's output.
Results should be identical in one core engine case.

If results of same source compiles are identical then you can run difference tool winmerge to find bug in your code.

[Michael Neish]

Thanks Jarkko, will check it out.

Merry Christmas.

Mike.