Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 08:11:49 06/22/00
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On June 22, 2000 at 08:38:36, Severi Salminen wrote: >Hi! > >I know that engines are not symmetrical: the score seen from one side is not >negative of the score seen from the other side. Yesterday I watched the banter >game at WCN with crafty (Eugene's 17.11) analyzing, and maybe during 10 to 20 >moves the score went all the time from (about) -1.0 to about zero. That is when >it was black's turn the score was about zero and after black made the move it >went to -1.0 , even if they played the move Crafty was thinking. And then after >white made his move the sore went back to -1.0. Can this asymmetry be this big? >What can cause this? This was not a case where black had an opportunity to grab >a pawn and missed it all the time (I think...). > >I don't have the gamescore right now but I can get it maybe later today. > >Severi King safety asymmetry can be _very_ big. If one side has a wide-open king, and the other doesn't, this can happen...
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