Author: Omid David
Date: 14:32:17 08/27/02
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On August 27, 2002 at 16:03:49, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On August 27, 2002 at 13:36:49, Roy Eassa wrote: > >>On August 27, 2002 at 01:05:47, Jouni Uski wrote: >> >>>Yes I hope, that ALL engines and chess UIFs will display analysis evaluation >>>same way: from current side to move point of view! The next best way is always >>>from whites point of view as in Chessbase. But please all same way. >>> >> >>I used to prefer that, but now I prefer the evaluation always being from White's >>point of view. (Chessbase has reprogrammed my mind!) > > >I don't know whether it was them or me, to be honest. But I took a lot >of flak when I made this change. And at first, it took some thought to >know what was going on when I would peek into crafty's log file and see >-4.0 and think that it was losing, when it was playing black and winning. :) > >Now it is natural to me, just like chess diagrams always have white at the >bottom. Once I wanted to compare two algorithms under very short times. So I conducted a few hundred bullet matches (1min/game) between to versions of Genesis. Now looking at WinBoard's score, which each second changes from - to + is really confusing. But if the score is only from white's point of view, it's easy to follow the scores even in short time controls.
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