Author: Uri Blass
Date: 07:34:38 01/08/01
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On January 08, 2001 at 10:09:34, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >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. I think that he meant that if you increase your material advantage from 1 pawn to 2 pawns and it is not move based. Uri
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