Author: Uri Blass
Date: 14:17:35 09/18/01
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On September 18, 2001 at 16:33:08, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On September 18, 2001 at 13:24:45, Uri Blass wrote: > >> >>Note that I said that computers can safely evaluate +2 if they do not see a >>positional advantage for the side with less pawns. >> >>Having a distant majority is a positional advantage. > >Not when hardly _any_ programs recognize it. > > >> >>I also think that Ed is right and today search solves usually the problem of >>missevaluating pawn majority. > >I disagree. If you enter into a series of captures, you might burn all your >search on the captures and have none left to see what the majority is going to >do. So you take the first step, and then you are committed. And every move >you make sees your score drop as you begin to sense the problem. By the time >the forced trades are done, you realize you are lost, as a king and pawns ending >can be searched incredibly deeply. Can you give a position that demonstates your point? Uri
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