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Subject: Re: Max positional score difference

Author: Nagendra Singh Tomar

Date: 23:07:43 11/14/02

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I was expecting posts regarding the passed pawn status.. I am sorry I did'nt put
it in my email; but I am interested in other positional attributes other than
passed pawn bonus..

regds
tomar

On November 15, 2002 at 01:54:17, Scott Gasch wrote:

>On November 15, 2002 at 00:23:42, Nagendra Singh Tomar wrote:
>
>>Hi All,
>>       I think this question has been asked in different forms in this forum but
>>I was less than satisfied, so I am putting the question once more.
>>
>>How much can be the maximum allowable difference in positional score of the two
>>sides ?
>>
>>i.e assuming BLACK during its search hits a position in the leaf and calls
>>evaluate, evaluate() finds that black's pieces are wonderfully placed and whites
>>pieces are pathetically placed but still black is say a bishop down. Is it
>>sensible to return a +ve eval score in this.
>>I mean can the maximum allowable difference in positional score  be as high as a
>>bishop or knight's score.
>>
>>Comments ?
>>
>>tomar
>
>
>Having a passer that can run is a positional feature worth +(QUEEN-PAWN).
>
>Scott



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