Stockfish doesn't find the winning move?!

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After a long think Stockfish.js 8 from my analysis board on chess.com decides that black has a slight advantage after the move h4. But when i play Ng4 instead the engine all of a sudden thinks black is winning!

How is this possible? I always thought that the analysis board is there for going over my games, do i have to reconsider?

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stickySpy wrote:
 
 

After a long think Stockfish.js 8 from my analysis board on chess.com decides that black has a slight advantage after the move h4. But when i play Ng4 instead the engine all of a sudden thinks black is winning!

How is this possible? I always thought that the analysis board is there for going over my games, do i have to reconsider?

Or... Let the computer run longer than 10 seconds.

 

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I did that and as you can see stockfish is still blind to Ng4 at depth 33.

I'm confused, how can this be?

 

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So i guess the power of my macbook is not enough sad.png

1,6 GHz Intel Core i5 isn't doing the job.

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Stockfish has sometimes been criticized for overly aggressive pruning.

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It took a couple minutes, but it got there. This is a several year old version of Stockfish, as well.

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So i downloaded the stockfish app and it took about 2 minutes to find Ng4 (depth 35), must be the pruning like blueemu said.

Thx for the answers

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GMtheforce hat geschrieben:
According to the chess.com engine, Ng4 is a mistake.

That's all I have to say.

 Play the move Ng4 and let the engine think until depth 23 or so, it changes it's decision.