Author: Uri Blass
Date: 13:14:43 05/27/02
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On May 27, 2002 at 15:44:14, Dann Corbit wrote: >On May 27, 2002 at 15:08:19, Bo Sjögren wrote: > >>OK; an engine can see that 1.h5+ is better simply because it can see the >>promotion. Let's look at the position after 1.b3?? h5: >>[D]8/p7/6k1/1p2p2p/1P2P2P/1PP5/5K2/8 w - - >>Can any engine _understand_, whatever we mean by that, that this is a draw? >>(When I said that I thought brute force wasn't enough, I was refering to >>this question.) For simplicity, I will accept that an engine "understands" >>that this is a draw if the score drops below, say, 0.3 pawns... > >Most programs probably won't ever know or care that it is a draw. Yes but it is not the new question of the poster. The question is what is the evaluation of chess programs in the position after 1.b3 h5 and if they can see in that position that the evaluation is not more than 0.3 pawns for white. Uri
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