Author: Odd Gunnar Malin
Date: 05:34:49 10/29/01
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On October 29, 2001 at 07:55:40, Steve Coladonato wrote: >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 Maybe you could post the game too. When I try here I get only score's like Bob said. Could it be that after it discard the best move crafty sees longer when analyzing your move. Odd Gunnar
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