Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 09:28:50 02/20/04
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On February 20, 2004 at 11:50:30, Tord Romstad wrote:
>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
Crafty says +.6 as the static evaluation:
note: scores are for the white side
material evaluation................. 0.20
development......................... 0.00
pawn evaluation..................... -0.13
passed pawn evaluation.............. 0.00
passed pawn race evaluation......... 0.00
king safety evaluation.............. 0.24
interactive piece evaluation........ 0.33
total evaluation.................... 0.64
A shallow search says +1.36:
9 0.90 1.07 1. d5 Kg8 2. Ne3 f5 3. Bd4 cxd5 4.
Qf4 dxc4 5. Bxc4 Re6 6. Bxe6 Qxe6 7.
Bxa7 Qxa2
9-> 1.26 1.07 1. d5 Kg8 2. Ne3 f5 3. Bd4 cxd5 4.
Qf4 dxc4 5. Bxc4 Re6 6. Bxe6 Qxe6 7.
Bxa7 Qxa2
10 3.19 1.36 1. d5 Kg8 2. Qxf6 Qxf6 3. Bxf6 Rd6
4. Bd4 cxd5 5. cxd5 Kf7 6. Ne3 b6
10-> 3.35 1.36 1. d5 Kg8 2. Qxf6 Qxf6 3. Bxf6 Rd6
4. Bd4 cxd5 5. cxd5 Kf7 6. Ne3 b6
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