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Subject: Re: Another Embarassing Endgame Problem

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.

--
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