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Subject: Re: No Need For Computers To Evaluate Chess Positions!

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 02:57:49 07/01/03

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On July 01, 2003 at 05:41:31, Graham Laight wrote:

>When a GM is contemplating a move, he doesn't say to himself, "Hmmmmm. I would
>give the resulting position a score of 1.723".
>
>Such an evaluation is nonsense anyway. There should properly be only 3
>evaluations:
>
>1. Winning position
>
>2. Drawing position
>
>3. Losing position

No

GM's and also every player compare positions to decide which position is better.

They may analyze line A and line B and decide to prefer line A because the final
position of line A is better when they do not know the theoretical result of
both lines.

Uri



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