Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 07:09:34 01/08/01
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On January 08, 2001 at 10:02:44, Uri Blass wrote: >On January 08, 2001 at 08:12:25, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: > >>On January 07, 2001 at 20:57:46, Ricardo Gibert wrote: >> >>>One well known rule of thumb is: It is often a bad idea to grab more material >>>when already ahead in material. >>> >>>For instance, when I play, I generally avoid increasing my material advantage >>>unless it does not cost me anything (time, structure, open lines for opponent, >>>etc.) to do so or I have nothing else to do that is constructive. >>> >>>In fact, a reasonable rule of thumb for open positions might be: The 1st pawn >>>grabbed is worth 3 tempi, but the 2nd pawn is only worth 1 tempo. Something I >>>observed while I studied some of Morphy's games. >>> >>>My question is: Do any programs take this into account or do they all consider >>>the 2nd pawn they grab to be as valuable as the 1st? >> >>why do you assume all programs are preprocessors? > >I did not read this assumption. > >Uri He says: "if you make a move capturing a second pawn" So his way of seeing a positions evaluation is move based.
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