Author: martin fierz
Date: 14:36:50 04/24/02
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On April 24, 2002 at 17:17:48, Otello Gnaramori wrote: >On April 24, 2002 at 16:56:10, martin fierz wrote: > >>impressive play by hiarcs! it outplayed smirin in a positional game as black - >>by far the best game of of a computer in the "comp vs smirin" match yet! >> >>aloha >> martin > >I agree with you, >The only strange thing was the final eval score of Hiarcs : over 2 pawns for >it... > >Otello not so strange :-) computers don't seem to understand the "fortress" concept. i posted two positions i got while playing against fritz about a week ago, and fritz evaluated both as +- from it's point of view, something like 1.6 pawns up. both were fortresses too, with nowhere to go for fritz. i'm not astonished that hiarcs has the same problem here, actually, this position looks much better than the two i posted: the advanced protected passed pawn on g3, plus white's crippled pawn structure - the static evaluation for such a position deserves to be +2. i complained about the eval of fritz, because having such a high eval for a drawn position can make you miss a de facto more promising line which gets a lower evaluation. these wrong evaluations can make a program miss a win - i wonder if hiarcs let a win slip here? instead of allowing this Bb4 Bxb4, could it have moved the king to the queenside? i hope we get smirin's comments on the game soon :-) aloha martin
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