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Increasing the scope of the new 'local computer evaluation'

Hey, I really love this feature, but I was wondering if it's calculation process could be more transparent?

For example, instead of just seeing it flick between two moves without knowing why, if there was a little box to the side that showed the top three moves, and their evaluation, as it did it, that would be great.

I've done an illustration to show what I mean:
http://i.imgur.com/efdjmQA.png
Enabling multi-PV greatly weakens Stockfish, so I chose not to. Therefore we only have one best move.
Uh, I don't really get you; on the local analysis, Stockfish flicks between multiple moves the longer you run it.

All I'm asking is to be able to see what it's doing; it shouldn't really make a difference to its strength.
The first moves are the first depth of the search.
Longer is better ...
Lupy what thibault is saying is that it's only searching for a single best move. If it comes to a point in the analysis that it doesn't like a result, it might look at another option. For the period of time that it's evaluating that line, it will change to display that line as the "best" move. But it may quickly go back as it gets farther in the line.

In order to display the top 2 or 3 moves it would require that Stockfish be analyzing multiple lines simultaneously. This greatly reduces the accuracy unless your computer is super fast. Make sense?
Okay sure, then it could just show what it has already discovered about those line.

Like I say, when it flicks between two (or several) different possibilities, I would like to see how closely it is evaluating these.

It doesn't really have to be the top three moves all the time.
I guess basically what you want is to see the numbers being crunched then I guess. That's kinda hard to do with just an arrow showing the move it's recommending. Shouldn't be entirely difficult to implement the math crunching live somewhere on the display, but it might look ugly, no idea.
Of course, the thing is, the amount of time it stays the recommended move tells you how closely it's evaluating them. If you let it sit for 10 seconds and it suddenly changes, the move it changes to, if it stays on it for more than a couple seconds, is likely a serious consideration. If it immediately goes back to the other move, then it was probably refuted quickly.
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