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Subject: Re: A hideous move

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 03:13:05 04/12/03

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On April 12, 2003 at 05:46:08, Jeremiah Penery wrote:

>On April 12, 2003 at 04:22:57, Uri Blass wrote:
>
>>On April 12, 2003 at 01:44:26, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>
>>>That has to be part of the evaluation.  IE you have to know that you can
>>>give the pawn up if your king is closer to the remaining pawns than the
>>>opposing king is...
>>>
>>>I do that obviously...
>>
>>This has nothing to do with the pawn.
>>
>>You have to evaluate correctly the following position that can happen
>>if you do not search deep enough
>>
>>[D]8/8/1K6/5p1p/4kP1P/6P1/8/8 w - - 0 6
>>
>>I hope that movei will be able to see it after I add some knolwedge but the
>>knowledge that is needed is not about passed pawns because there are no passed
>>pawns in that position.
>
>Bob never said anything about passed pawns.

He did in the post that started this thread:

http://www.talkchess.com/forums/1/message.html?292975

"This seems to be an example of an engine that misses the power of the "distant
passed pawn".

I agree that a lot of engines have problems in the evaluation but the problem
is about not evaluating correctly king relative to the pawns and has nothing to
do with evaluation of the "distant passed pawns".

Uri



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