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Subject: Re: evaluation

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 09:13:57 03/27/03

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On March 27, 2003 at 11:43:10, jefkaan wrote:

>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..

Movei gives a big panelty for a knight in the corner.
I am sure that there are also commercial engines that do it (see Junior)

Uri



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