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Subject: Re: Winning Chances vs Material/Positional Evaluation

Author: Jay Scott

Date: 09:32:06 07/29/99

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On July 29, 1999 at 10:23:58, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>right.. ie a good eval could produce -1, 0 and 1 and play using those scores
>just so they are right.  That program could also use -1001, -1000, and -999
>and produce the same result...

That's fine for making moves, but how about for deciding on draw offers?
To do that the program needs a notion of who's better. An absolute
evaluation also naturally measures who's better--though it's not the
only way to do it.

  Jay



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