Author: Gareth McCaughan
Date: 03:25:01 11/23/01
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On November 23, 2001 at 03:02:29, José Carlos wrote: [I said:] >>>Think for a moment about how *you* evaluate this position as >>>"obviously a win for white". I bet the answer is that you >>>think "White will just push the pawn and queen; Black can't >>>take it". In other words, you do it by looking ahead: by >>>search. Why shouldn't programs do likewise? ... > I think Colin is right after all. In the given position it's black to move, Oh yes, so it is. In that case, I think I recant. I still don't think it's a serious problem (any more than it's a serious problem that having a mate in 2 isn't visible to the static eval), but it still would be nice to evaluate this better for white. My apologies to Colin and anyone else who's been reading this for oversimplifying. -- g
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