Author: Tord Romstad
Date: 08:50:30 02/20/04
In a blitz game between Gothmog and Phalanx, played earlier today, the following position was reached: [D]3rr2k/pp3q1p/2p2pp1/8/2PP4/3B1Q2/PBN2PPP/6K1 w - - Without doing a search, Gothmog thinks white has a winning advantage. The static eval returns a score of +2.0, despite approximate material equality. The big plus score for white seems to be almost entirely because of the bishop pair (my bishop pair bonus is really big when the opposite side has no minor pieces) and the weakness of black's a1-h8 diagonal. To this patzer's eyes, an advantage of +2 in this position seems to be way too much. Should I have a closer look at my bishop pair bonus, or is Gothmog's assesment of the position really OK? Tord
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