Author: Chris Whittington
Date: 10:54:43 11/24/97
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On November 24, 1997 at 12:46:11, Ernst A. Heinz wrote: >On November 24, 1997 at 11:55:51, Chris Whittington wrote: >> >>Negative evals mean they just choose Na5 by chance as the least bad >>possibility. They don't have the knowledge, but they got lucky in this >>position. > >Not true, Chris. > >DarkThought understands that everything except Na5 *looses* But I thought you posted that DT said -3.5 for the eval ? So it would think that Na5 loses as well, then, no ? >and it also >understands that the resulting position is a draw as soon as the white >king gets into the corner. Yup, this is the basic knowledge to be expected. > *But* Black need not let him get there -- by >aimlessly moving around with his king, bishop, and eventually his pawns. >Consequently, the position will be drawn *very far* in the future due to >the 50-moves rule. Did DT do a 100+ ply search ? Chris > >>Draw evals with a long and valid main line mean they really understand. > >Well, this main line should be well over 100 plies because Black still >has >some pawn moves ... > >Ah yes, I totally agree with you that it looks very complicated and >maybe >even foolish to try to assess the resulting position as drawn "at a >glance". > >=Ernst=
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