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Subject: Re: pawn race position

Author: Jon Dart

Date: 10:53:14 06/05/02

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On June 05, 2002 at 12:34:21, William H Rogers wrote:

>Although my program only searches 8 plys, it evaluates black as being down by
>4.5 pawns, in other words, it says that white has the advantage.
>Bill

The issue here is not what result you get from search, but how your evaluation
function handles the position. Can you tell at the root ply, just through eval,
that White is winning? Crafty can.

--Jon



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