Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 07:05:22 09/10/01
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On September 09, 2001 at 19:04:09, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: >On September 09, 2001 at 18:40:47, Dave Gomboc wrote: > >>P.S. If I recall correctly, both DT2 and Hiarcs use Pawn=1.28. Ed told CCC >>that Rebel uses Pawn=0.75, I got the impression that Junior was about the same >>(maybe even lower?) Perhaps "+2.xx" looks crazy to Amir because his own program >>would give +1.5 instead in the same circumstance. > >Your memory is very well, but when I read through the archives >Robert said he saw a +3 score, which would be about +2.3 in >normal pawn units, so he kept talking about a +2.x score. > >-- >GCP So far as I recall, a pawn was 128 in DT. I'm not sure why, other than that is an obvious power of two. Maybe it made converting a material score into a raw piece 'count' easy (material>>7 would do the trick).
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