Why is this move better?

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So I just analysed this game I played and was a bit confused by the engine.
The move exf1=Q it called an excellent move.The best move would have been to promote to a rook.There are literally zero differences between the two moves, yet the engine shows a slightly higher advantage when promoting to a rook.Is this a bug?

So I just

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AlekhinesRazor hat geschrieben:

Most likely the engine sees that Black loses less material when Black loses a rook instead of a queen.

Possible.Still weird though.meh

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I analysed the game too and in my analysis the move exf1=Q is the best move. I think there is no difference. But why is it different in my analysis?
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Stonekite wrote: yet the engine shows a slightly higher advantage when promoting to a rook.

Are you sure about this? I am running the analysis right now, and the engine always gives the same evaluation to those 2 moves.

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magipi hat geschrieben:
Stonekite wrote: yet the engine shows a slightly higher advantage when promoting to a rook.

Are you sure about this? I am running the analysis right now, and the engine always gives the same evaluation to those 2 moves.

Absolutely sure.My analysis shows 0.4 higher advantage when promoting to a rook.Perhaps your engine is running at a higher depth?

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Stonekite wrote:
magipi hat geschrieben:
Stonekite wrote: yet the engine shows a slightly higher advantage when promoting to a rook.

Are you sure about this? I am running the analysis right now, and the engine always gives the same evaluation to those 2 moves.

Absolutely sure.My analysis shows 0.4 higher advantage when promoting to a rook.Perhaps your engine is running at a higher depth?

Every engine I tried shows them as equal a all depths. As they should.

A reasonable explanation that you are looking at a moment when one move is analyzed one half-move deeper than the other. In this case a slight difference may show up but it will equalize when the depths are the same.