Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 19:56:14 01/20/04
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On January 20, 2004 at 21:22:47, Geoff wrote: >Hi > >I was just looking at a game my program lost to see where it went wrong > >[D]r3k2r/pp1n1ppp/2p2nb1/3p4/3P4/1QN1PPq1/PP2B1N1/R1B2RK1 b kq - 0 2 > >I am a fairly weak chess player but looking at the above position my intuition >that the position is about equal must be wrong? CM9000 reckons that white is >ahead by at about +1.6. >I would say that although black is approx 1 pawn down on material, its position >is fairly solid, and blacks queen is starting to really mess up whites king >safety. blacks bishop is nicely placed, knights are ok too and blacks pawn >structure is sound, blacks king is not under pressure. >Hence I guessed it looked about equal, my program also reckoned so with a score >of 0.01. > >Where is my intuiton wrong on this one, at a glance what should tell me white >has got a good advantage ? > > Regards Geoff White is a _piece_ ahead. The black queen is irritating, but there is no quick way to get more pieces into the attack than white has defenders... If you are a piece down, and you don't see something good coming of it pretty soon, then maybe you are just a piece down. :)
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