Author: Amir Ban
Date: 09:00:03 09/24/98
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On September 24, 1998 at 11:43:38, Robert Hyatt wrote: >This last influences the evaluation of the above position quite markedly, >because this is an endgame, and black is going to get the bishop-over- >knight in endgame bonus two times since black has two bishops, white has >none. Black also gets the traditional bishop-pair bonus as well, which >might or might not be overkill here. In any case, I first gave this to a >GM to look at and the response "black wins easily." Not surprising, the >bishop pair vs the pair of knights should favor the bishops. I then told >him that Crafty "statically" evaluates this position as "-.93" which is >the raw score Evaluate() returns here. He said "hmmm... ". And we had >an interesting conversation without concluding whether this is too large, >too small, or "just right." > The expression "black wins easily" should translate to -2.50 at least. I see a gross contradiction between "black wins easily" and "-0.93 is just right". Amir
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