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Subject: evaluation

Author: jefkaan

Date: 08:43:10 03/27/03


some weak points in evaluation of most engines,
including most of the top-programs:
1) rooks in the corner; in many known openings,
Belgrado gambit, Scotch Qh4, Taxler, and some more
variants a knight is capturing a rook in the corner;
but similar things can happen outside book theory.
Later on however in the game the knight then can be
captured back by the opposing king. Usually this is
outside the engine's horizon and  i dont know of any
engine (maybe Mchess?) which gives a penalty
for the knight in such a case..

2) open fields in front of a rook;
eg. in case of the Benko gambit there's a lot
of pressure against the white queen-side, yet
most engines don't see this.

3) more ?

PS fundamentally the Traxler might not be correct,
and maybe even the Benko gambit as well, but
as is evaluated now by engines i think
they still are *far* too materialistic !



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