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Subject: Re: Tough passed pawn theme from ECM98

Author: José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba

Date: 13:47:12 02/23/00

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On February 23, 2000 at 16:42:24, Dave Gomboc wrote:

>On February 23, 2000 at 13:17:28, Dann Corbit wrote:
>
>>On February 23, 2000 at 10:37:07, Mark Young wrote:
>>
>>>On February 22, 2000 at 23:23:40, Dann Corbit wrote:
>>>
>>>>On February 22, 2000 at 22:42:37, Mark Young wrote:
>>>>[snip]
>>>>>1...b3-b2+!
>>>>>  -+  (-2.59)   Depth: 25/50   01:55:10  2426474kN, tb=95806
>>>>
>>>>Interesting that the right move is chosen, but the eval is going more and more
>>>>negative all the time.  Is the test problem actually wrong?  Is there a defense?
>>>
>>>-+(standard chess notation) means Black stands much better, - scores are good
>>>for black in chessbase, + scores are good for white.
>>
>>It's non-standard and incorrect.  The PGN Standard by Steven J. Edwards says
>>that centipawn evaluations are integers with the following constraints:
>
>It has nothing to do with PGN or any other standard.  What shows up on the GUI
>display is not an EPD string, nor does it claim to be one.  (If the sign was
>incorrect coming out of something that claimed to analyze EPD strings, that
>would be something else.)
>
>Dave

	And when we use crafty under Xboard in analysis mode, the scores are reported
exactly this way (positive means good for white, negative means good for black).
Now Dann would have to criticize his beloved crafty+Xboard (:
José.



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