Author: Roger D Davis
Date: 15:46:10 07/28/99
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On July 28, 1999 at 18:16:24, Dann Corbit wrote: >On July 28, 1999 at 17:50:51, Kristo Miettinen wrote: > >>The position is the opening array, all pieces in their initial positions. The >>explanation about the eight pawns makes sense, intending to steer Crafty into >>open waters (on the assumption that the opponent is human?) >> >>I was looking into this on a whim, as I use the advantage of White in the >>opening position as my quantum of positional value (on which scale the value of >>a pawn is 6 quanta for me). >Here is the C.A.P. record for that position. > >rnbqkbnr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RNBQKBNR w KQkq - acd 15; ce -7; pv e4 e6 Nf3 >Bb4 Nc3 Ne7 Bc4 Nbc6 O-O O-O d4 Bxc3 bxc3 Na5 Bb5; pm e4; id "C.A.P. 4028"; > >I bet you never knew crafty was French. > >Crafty thinks it is behind by 7 one hundredths of a pawn. This is obviously >conservative because white has a tempo at least. But I don't think that it is >grossly inaccurate. Nope, it's not grossly inaccurate. GM Suba argues that while white has the tempo at the beginning of a game, black has more information, since he is replying to white. As open as chess is from the initial position, you might even consider this eval accurate. Roger
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