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Subject: Re: Testposition: stalemate prevention; How many plies & nodes does it take?

Author: David Rasmussen

Date: 04:49:53 12/17/02

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On December 17, 2002 at 00:59:07, Uri Blass wrote:

>>the PV gets a +0.510 score. That is not totally unreasonable for a static
>>evalutation, is it?
>
>I think that it is unreasonable and not because of the mate.
>
>king and rook is usually better than king and 3 pawns(when the king is in the
>square of the pawns) so static evaluation should give advantage for black.
>

Sure, but my evaluation doesn't consider this so... :) Not really a "bug". Just
a dumb program :)

>Movei does not evaluate this factor but it also does not evaluate passed pawns.
>
>In general rook is better than 3 passed pawns in most of the cases so even after
>I give bonus for passed pawns I do not plan to evaluate 3 connected passed pawns
>as stronger than a rook.
>

OK.

>you can evaluate them as stronger than a rook in some cases(endgames when the
>king is not close to the pawns) but these cases are the exception and not the
>rule.
>

OK.

/David



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