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sometimes the engine does not sort by best evaluation

I am fairly certain that we display the multipv lines in the order that engine puts them in. According to UCI specification the engine should always send the best move as multipv 1.

From http://wbec-ridderkerk.nl/html/UCIProtocol.html:

* multipv 
	this for the multi pv mode.
	for the best move/pv add "multipv 1" in the string when you send the pv.
	in k-best mode always send all k variants in k strings together.

We could reorder them by cp but this should not be necessary unless the engine does not comply with the UCI specification.

I agree, but anyway we had this problem repeatedly and it was also reported in the user study, so something must be going wrong somewhere