What is the highest numeric magnitude of evaluation possible?

In this game I just played I had a -71.7 evaluation, and I don't remember seeing one that high before. What is the cap? Perhaps a hundred? Is there a cap? Of course I'm excluding mate in X moves.
https://i.imgur.com/scmTPow.png

A position can only be won or it's equal. Resp. 0 or any number is legit.

@ELO5287 said in #1:

In this game I just played I had a -71.7 evaluation, and I don't remember seeing one that high before. What is the cap? Perhaps a hundred? Is there a cap? Of course I'm excluding mate in X moves.
99 if it exceeds 100 its mate in x moves
proof

https://lichess.org/study/uzHUcuOw

(put computer analysis)

Btw, ELO5287: "I don't remember seeing one that high before."

@Sarg0n said in #2:

A position can only be won or it's equal. Resp. 0 or any number is legit.
I'm not asking a philosophical question about what is "legit", which would be your opinion anyway. I'm asking a practical question what is the highest number for an evaluation that stockfish will disiplay.

Btw, ELO5287: "I don't remember seeing one that high before."
And?

@ELO5287 said in #5:

I'm not asking a philosophical question about what is "legit", which would be your opinion anyway. I'm asking a practical question what is the highest number for an evaluation that stockfish will disiplay.

And?

Elo 5287!?

Btw, every program and even different versions have different caps. So you are asking for this particular version used in lichess?

Further question: illegal positions included?

@Sarg0n said in #6:

Elo 5287!?

Btw, every program and even different versions have different caps. So you are asking for this particular version used in lichess?

Good questions. Yes, the normal version that comes with the lichess analysis board.
And it would be interesting to see first for legal positions, but then if you had one with like 20 queens that was even higher that would be interesting too. The other commenter suggested it's 100 , so perhaps 20 queens gets you a fraction of an evaluation point closer than with 9 queens? Assuming 9 queens makes a difference.

@KenulL_76 said in #3:

99 if it exceeds 100 its mate in x moves
proof

(put computer analysis)

WOWWWWWWWWW they finally let you put illegal positions into the analysis board it seems! When did that happen? I've been wanting that for so long. I have a lot of things to try now lol.

And yea i guess 99 being so close to 100 makes it seem like 100 is the ceiling. I guess a fun challenge might be to see how close you can actually get it. 99? 99.1? 99.2? Thanks for the response.

@ELO5287 said in #9:
Bruh its not illegal ppl played games with it