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Subject: Re: Computer Evaluations of positions

Author: Andrew Williams

Date: 02:10:51 04/09/02

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On April 09, 2002 at 04:40:41, Daniel Clausen wrote:

>On April 08, 2002 at 18:49:22, Andrew Williams wrote:
>
>>The point about negative being good for black isn't universal. For my program
>>(and I think some others) a positive score is good for the side whose turn it
>>is. So if it's Black's turn and the score is -10.77 in my program that would
>>mean that White is winning by about a Queen.
>
>Concerning ICC: Kiwipete (you know, the guy with that famous movegeneration test
>position :) solved it nicely by saying "+whatever by white/black". It's clear
>for everyone and it's trivial to implement... I don't know why no-one else uses
>this scheme (afaik). Sinan (my chess engine) will definitely use this (hopefully
>not copyrighted) scheme when whispering eval on ICC. Of course it will be a
>ridiculous eval, but at least everyone will know for which side it is. :)
>
>Or I could use + for side to move, when it's the engine's move, + for white when
>in analyzing mode - except on Tuesday and Friday afternoon. :)
>
>Sargon

Yeah, I like Pete's scheme as well. When will sinan be on ICC?

Andrew



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