Author: Uri Blass
Date: 06:14:49 08/03/04
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On August 03, 2004 at 09:04:13, Anthony Cozzie wrote: >On August 03, 2004 at 04:54:11, morphy wrote: > >>Why the valutation is always referred to the material advantage (where a pawn in >>more is the unit) and we can't have a valutation in tems of percentage of >>probability for winning and drawing? > >Because having more material greatly increases your chances for winning? > >I think the scales are pretty equivalent: > >For Zappa: > >0.0 means 50/50 (assuming equal strength opponent) > >+1 means 70% chance to win or so. > >+3 is about 95% > >+6 = 99.9% > >anthony No they are not equivalent and probabillity gives more information. 0.0 can mean 100% draw and can mean 40% chances for white and 40% chances for black and only 20% for draw. You may want to prune the first 0.0 and extend the second 0.0 Uri
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