Author: Carsten Kossendey
Date: 14:14:10 05/18/98
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On May 18, 1998 at 13:36:07, Ren Wu wrote: > >On May 18, 1998 at 11:43:45, Carsten Kossendey wrote: > > >> >>>I found this position very interesting. I don't understand why all the >>>leading commercial program here need that much depth and time to realize >>>there is a problem. >> >>Since you still evaluate Bxa8 at +3.81, only 0.01 less than g4, I >>wouldn't exactly say your program "sees" anything here either. > >If you refuse to believe the fact, then there is nothing i can do. > >Don't you know that program can return bounds? and sometimes lower or >higher than bounds already provide enough info? > >Ren (renw@iname.com) First of all, your output does in no way state which scores are bounds and which are exact, so everyone will assume they are *all* exact. Secondly the point of the position was that Bxa8 is a *really* bad move, and a score of <= +3.81 is not exactly suggesting this. Crafty's +0.56 eval (contrary to +3.16 for b6) gets a lot closer to the point, for example.
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