Is my chess engine broken?

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Can you please tell me what your particular engine thinks is the best move in this position and please tell me also what engine you used.
 
I need to know if my engine is broken, cause it cannot seem to find the winning move here despite me giving it a long time to calculate.
 
If you want you can try and solve this for white on your own, but I posted this mainly because I am concerned the engine I use is not functioning properly.
 
Thanks for the help.
 
 
 
 
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It says castle O-O
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I don't have an engine, but I'd play Rc6, just BECAUSE.

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Thanks, when you post your answers can you please tell me what engine you used?

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DrumstickChippopotamus wrote:
 
WHITE TO MOVE
Can you please tell me what your particular engine thinks is the best move in this position and please tell me also what engine you used.
 
I need to know if my engine is broken, cause it cannot seem to find the winning move here despite me giving it a long time to calculate.
 
If you want you can try and solve this for white on your own, but I posted this mainly because I am concerned the engine I use is not functioning properly.
 
Thanks for the help.
 
 
 
 

Why do you feel that your engine is broken?

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Rc6 is a big blunder
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I use stockfish
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This position came from a puzzle book written by a GM. Yet my computer cannot find the answer, therefore I conclude my engine might be broken. It has been acting very weird lately in general.

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The top two moves that Stockfish 16 is giving me are 19.Rc6 and 19.0-0.

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Interesting. My engine can't find Rc6 which is the best move. Is there another way to see if my computer engine is sub-par?

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Why 10. Rc6???
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DrumstickChippopotamus wrote:

Interesting. My engine can't find Rc6 which is the best move. Is there another way to see if my computer engine is sub-par?

What engine are you running?

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DrumstickChippopotamus wrote:
 
WHITE TO MOVE
Can you please tell me what your particular engine thinks is the best move in this position and please tell me also what engine you used.
 
I need to know if my engine is broken, cause it cannot seem to find the winning move here despite me giving it a long time to calculate.
 
If you want you can try and solve this for white on your own, but I posted this mainly because I am concerned the engine I use is not functioning properly.
 
Thanks for the help.
 
 
 
 

mine tells me RC6

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markkoso wrote:

same

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DrumstickChippopotamus wrote:

Thanks, when you post your answers can you please tell me what engine you used?

i used stockfish 16

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I don't want to say what engine I'm running, but it sounds to me like my engine sucks.

It gives 0-0 as the only move and gives it +2.10

Is it completely off base here?

Could someone possibly post some positions that might test my chess engine further?

Perhaps positions that are used to test chess computers...

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DrumstickChippopotamus wrote:

I don't want to say what engine I'm running, but it sounds to me like my engine sucks.

It gives 0-0 as the only move and gives it +2.10

Is it completely off base here?

Could someone possibly post some positions that might test my chess engine further?

Perhaps positions that are used to test chess computers...

I find it completely strange that you are unwilling to state what engine you are using. Giving a +2.1 evaluation after 0-0 isn't unreasonable. The only reason that I can think of that your engine didn't present 19.Rc6 is that only one variations output is being shown when you are analyzing the position. That would mean that it is a problem with the settings rather than the engine.

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lostpawn247 wrote:
DrumstickChippopotamus wrote:

I don't want to say what engine I'm running, but it sounds to me like my engine sucks.

It gives 0-0 as the only move and gives it +2.10

Is it completely off base here?

Could someone possibly post some positions that might test my chess engine further?

Perhaps positions that are used to test chess computers...

I find it completely strange that you are unwilling to state what engine you are using. Giving a +2.1 evaluation after 0-0 isn't unreasonable. The only reason that I can think of that your engine didn't present 19.Rc6 is that only one variations output is being shown when you are analyzing the position. That would mean that it is a problem with the settings rather than the engine.

If it is a publicly available engine then check to see how many move-pairs deep it looks.

If it is a privately written engine then look into extending the move-pair depth (at a minimum on lines that involve captures).

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In my opinion Rc6 looks like the best move, no engine required