From 86853a60cea0c786c8e69bc27ffc102659cb31ad Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Robert Nurnberg @ elitebook"
 <28635489+robertnurnberg@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2026 09:28:45 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] [bugfix] Send correct search depth in final UCI info line

For quite some time SF has reported a too low final search depth in rare cases
(in multi-threaded search if a non-main thread was selected). Unfortunately,
the recent refactoring in #6704 means that this now happens for almost every
stopped search.

This PR fixes this issue, which was first spotted and reported by joergoster,
by ensuring that `rootDepth` always holds the last depth for which a search was
started.

Fixes #6756.

closes https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/pull/6761

No functional change.
---
 src/search.cpp | 8 +++++---
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/search.cpp b/src/search.cpp
index 50aa07708..abb229eaf 100644
--- a/src/search.cpp
+++ b/src/search.cpp
@@ -247,7 +247,7 @@ void Search::Worker::start_searching() {
 
     // Send PV info if it has changed since last output in iterative_deepening().
     if (!uciPvSent || bestThread != this)
-        main_manager()->pv(*bestThread, threads, tt, bestThread->completedDepth);
+        main_manager()->pv(*bestThread, threads, tt, bestThread->rootDepth);
 
     // In rare cases, pv() may change the ponder move through syzygy_extend_pv().
     std::string ponder;
@@ -322,9 +322,11 @@ bool Search::Worker::iterative_deepening() {
             mainHistory[c][i] = mainHistory[c][i] * 820 / 1024;
 
     // Iterative deepening loop until requested to stop or the target depth is reached
-    while (++rootDepth < MAX_PLY && !threads.stop
-           && !(limits.depth && mainThread && rootDepth > limits.depth))
+    while (rootDepth + 1 < MAX_PLY && !threads.stop
+           && !(limits.depth && mainThread && rootDepth >= limits.depth))
     {
+        rootDepth++;
+
         // Age out PV variability metric and signal the start of a new iteration.
         if (mainThread)
         {