Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 11:11:58 07/01/03
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On July 01, 2003 at 07:26:04, Amir Ban wrote: >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". >> > >Probability of outcome and evaluation score are essentially the same thing. > >Amir Many overlook that. _Way_ too many take a chess program's score as a "absolute value." It is really a "probability estimate of winning or losing."
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