Author: Uri Blass
Date: 23:09:56 12/02/00
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On December 03, 2000 at 01:25:36, William Penn wrote: >On December 02, 2000 at 14:23:24, eric guttenberg wrote: > >>Yes, I think I'll do that (play with empty opening book)-in fact I had >>noticed that with Black CM8000 was worse by about half a pawn almost >>every time on the first move out of book and more often than not >>stayed worse the entire game-a problem that never occured with White. >> >>eric > >Black is worse be half a pawn in any chess game. That is the value of white's >first move. >WP No It is not the value of white first move. The average difference in evaluation out of book is usually smaller than 0.5 and 0.1 or 0.2 pawn is closer to the truth. Uri
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