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

Author: Christophe Drieu

Date: 03:03:07 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
>
>It would be nice if a program could work as follows:
>
>"nb5. This position contains a possible bishop trap".
>
>"nd5. This puts more pressure on the opponent's king"
>
>"Opponent classification: bishop trap success rate = 25%"
>
>"Opponent classification: king attack success rate = 15%"
>
>"Choice = nb5".
>
>-g
Rebel 12 (DOS) can give you some informations like that.

• Re: No Need For Computers To Evaluate Chess Positions! Thorsten Czub 03:45:09 07/01/03
  • Re: No Need For Computers To Evaluate Chess Positions! Mike Hood 06:10:04 07/01/03
    • Re: No Need For Computers To Evaluate Chess Positions! Thorsten Czub 11:37:55 07/01/03
      • Re: No Need For Computers To Evaluate Chess Positions! Mike Hood 20:26:47 07/01/03

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