Author: Steve Coladonato
Date: 04:55:40 10/29/01
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On October 28, 2001 at 16:38:04, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On October 28, 2001 at 14:53:31, Steve Coladonato wrote: > >>On October 28, 2001 at 09:31:10, Robert Hyatt wrote: >> >>>On October 28, 2001 at 08:18:55, Steve Coladonato wrote: >>> >>>>I have extracted my lost games from SCID into a pgn file and have used crafty >>>>17.9 to do the annotation with "<colors|name>" set to my name. This is a great >>>>feature because it determines which color I was playing and then analyzes the >>>>moves only for that color. The evaluations in the "can" file appear to be >>>>"relative" evaluations and I was wondering if there is an argument that would >>>>produce "absolute" evaluations. The crafty documentation does not refer to one. >>>> >>>>The command I used was: "annotate mylosses.pgn Coladonato 5-99 .15 20" which >>>>gets me to an average of ply 11 on my PC. >>> >>> >>>I am not sure about "relative" vs "absolute" unless you mean how it finds the >>>best move, and then if the played move is XX worse relative to the best, then >>>it outputs a PV and score for both? I don't see how that could be done in an >>>"absolute" way. >>> >>>If you mean how it displays all scores with +=good for white, -=good for black, >>>that is just a design decision that makes the scores easier to understand. >> >>Dr. Hyatt, >> >>Yes, I was referring to absolute meaning +=good for white and -=good for black >>and relative meaning +=good for whomevers move it is -=good for the other color. >> e.g. When it is analyzing when I'm the black player, -1.40 for the moved played >>vs -.60 for what crafty selected indicates that white (my opponent) is actually >>+1.40 (absolute) for the moved played and would only be +.60 (absolute) for the >>selected move. Am I interpreting the score correctly? >> >>If that's the correct interpretation, I can write an awk script to change the >>scores when I'm the black side. >> >>Thanks. >> >>Steve > > >That is correct. _every_ score displayed is +=good for white, -=good for >black, whether it is in the log files, whispered/kibitzes on a chess server, >or displayed in annotated game comments... I was hoping that's what it would be but there is a game that has me confused. Unfortunately, it is on my Linux PC at home and I won't be able to check it out until this evening. Thanks again for the clarification. If I'm still confused, after this evening, I'll post an additional reply. Regards. Steve
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