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Subject: Re: Uri Blass(deep fritz) vs Robert Hyatt (IBM) - opinions or analys

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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