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Subject: Re: interesting example of a successful attack

Author: José Carlos

Date: 02:29:45 01/09/01

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On January 09, 2001 at 03:54:35, Uri Blass wrote:

[snip]

>
>Humans are going to prefer 2 pawns with no compensation and not this position
>because they have not linear evaluation but programs seem to use the simple sum
>of positional score and material score.

  The "linear evaluation" is not accurate in _any_ case. For example, KNK is a
draw, but adding a pawn for white is not simply summing 1 point, but getting a
won position. Or a mid-game postion with a pawn up can be a draw, and a second
pawn can turn it into a win.
  So this is very difficult to handle and, programs that do evaluate correctly
these things have a great advantage over the ones only summing material.

  José C.

>I did not analyze enough to find if black can save the game but it seems that if
>black can save the game then h5 is the right move.
>
>Uri



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