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Subject: Re: Just because the evaluation is 0.00 does not mean it's a drawn position!

Author: Thorsten Czub

Date: 07:25:38 12/05/00

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On December 04, 2000 at 22:10:36, Laurence Chen wrote:

>Uri just because a chess engine gives an evaluation of 0.00 does not necessary
>mean that it is a drawn position.

nobody said so.

> In an endgame, that can be evaluation can be
>taken as true, however, in an opening or middle game position, 0.00 does not
>mean draw, I never would interpret such score of 0.00 as a draw, because that is
>incorrect.

right. but nobody does.

uri wanted to show me positions where a knowledge based program like shredder5
has the same wrong 0.00 score like fritz has.
it was my "thesis" / idea that draw score in fritz often indicates:

"i don't know
about the position. i will lose now !"




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