Author: James T. Walker
Date: 13:36:39 02/13/02
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On February 13, 2002 at 15:38:58, Kurt Utzinger wrote: >Black to move. The position is a draw, even if White could manage to win both >Black pawns. But quite a lot of [top] programs do not at all understand this and >show completely wrong evaluations. > >A good example where a 1500-ELO-player does better than the so called >2700-ELO-silicon-monsters!! >Kurt > >[D] 8/8/5k1p/6pP/6K1/8/8/3B4 b - - 0 1 I believe that playing the position properly (saving the draw) is more important than the eval shown by the program. I think some programmers don't care if the score shows that the program thinks it's ahead because it has a bishop for a pawn. I think it's more important that it gets a draw when the game is technically a draw. I also see many cases where one program will show a score of +56.25 where others will show only +10.15. Does it really matter? I also believe that chess programs do not understand _a_n_y_ positions. They simply do what they are told and hopefully in most cases it is the right thing to do. The score is simply a means to arrive at what is hopefully the best move. Every day I see two progams playing on auto232 where they both think they are ahead and even when they both think they are behind. They still play better than any 1500 player I know.
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