Author: John Merlino
Date: 09:09:38 12/09/04
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On December 09, 2004 at 09:52:25, Anthony Cozzie wrote: >On December 09, 2004 at 05:47:23, Vasik Rajlich wrote: > >>On December 08, 2004 at 22:32:52, Will Singleton wrote: >> >>>[d]r3k2r/pppqb1pp/1nn1bp2/4p3/8/2NP1NP1/PP1BPPBP/2RQ1RK1 b kq - >> >>With knight on b6 and bishop on e7 the black king must go kingside. >> >>In case of 0-0-0 white will continue with the automatic Ne4 and then decide with >>pleasure between a2-a4, b2-b4, h2-h4 or Nc5. >> >>Vas > >What is very interesting here is that both you and martin like White (even after >0-0) while Zappa is quite happy with Black (and I _think_ Chessmaster is as >well, although I always get confused with all the signs). > >It is pretty obvious why Zappa likes Black (simple computerish things like good >mobility and better center control) but what does White have? After 0-0-0 I >guess I can give the edge to white (Zappa still doesn't understand, of course) >but in this patzer's opinion 0-0 is =+ for Black. > >anthony Indeed, Chessmaster likes Black after queenside castle. The King engine sends its evals like most other engines -- positive scores are good for the side to move. However, the CM GUI, to make it easier for our typical user who can't be bothered to think too much about these kinds of things, converts all scores such that positive scores are always good for White. So, the negative score in CM's output that I gave elsewhere in this thread shows an advantage for Black. jm
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