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Subject: Re: How many pawns is a positional blunder?

Author: Andrew Williams

Date: 08:43:26 01/17/02

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On January 17, 2002 at 11:19:39, Odd Gunnar Malin wrote:

>On January 17, 2002 at 08:29:48, David Rasmussen wrote:
>
>>0.50 pawns? 0.30 pawns? 0.20 pawns?
>>
>>Specifically, when letting Crafty annotate a game, and you want to find what it
>>thinks is a positional blunder, what should be the margin?
>>
>>/David
>
>In books etc. use the move that change the score between += and = normaly be
>annotated as ?! (dubious move).
>
>In my first chess-program I own (Zarkov 2.6 by Stanback) he was giving this
>change a score of 0.2 pawn value. He gives the score between '+/-' and '=' to
>0.6. (+/- -> White is clearly better or White has the upper hand.)
>In normal language this change between +/= and = could be writen 'white stands
>slightly better' and 'even'.
>
>The use in Chess Assistant seems to be between 0.4-0.5 pawn value but they have
>added a definition between these two scores (+=/=). I haven't tested the CA
>score because I always use symbols when analysing to not be disturbed by the
>small decimal changes.
>
>
>Odd Gunnar

That's interesting. In my program's "blunder check" mode, I annotate as
follows:

Score drops by 0.60:  ??
Score drops by 0.40:   ?
Score drops by 0.20:  ?!

In my program, "blunder check" involves making the move the program made in
a game, then searching for the opponent. If the score for the opponent is much
higher than PM anticipated in the game, it's a "blunder".

Andrew



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