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Subject: Re: Material vs Positional Assessments

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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