Author: Mike Hood
Date: 15:05:10 02/05/04
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On February 05, 2004 at 17:43:22, Matthew Broderbund wrote: >On February 05, 2004 at 17:19:55, Mike Hood wrote: > >>On February 05, 2004 at 17:14:23, George Tsavdaris wrote: >> >>>On February 05, 2004 at 16:57:30, Matthew Broderbund wrote: >>> >>>>Hello, >>>> >>>>What do these parameters of the Fritz8 engine mean? >>>> >>>>Contempt value >>>>Selectivity >>>>Futility prunning >>>>Pawn levers >>>>Scale evaluation >>>> >>>>What do these parameters of the Shredder7 engine mean? >>>>Forward prunning >>>>Threads >>> >>>From the chessbase help: >> >>> Pawn levers: The program prefers positions with pawn levers. >> >>This definition of "pawn levers" is less than useless. In technical jargon, this >>is what's known as a "circular definition". > >The definition was helpful to me. If you can expand or elaborate on it I would >be appreciative. > >Matt I have no complaints about the other elements in the help file, the ones that I didn't quote. But this definition says nothing. As it happens, I know what "pawn levers" are, because I read about them in a book on opening theory. I'd guess that at least half of this forum's members also know roughly what a pawn lever is. But, considering that Fritz is aimed at a wide consumer base, how many of Fritz's users know what a pawn lever is? 10%? 5%? Less? A simple one or two sentence explanation would have made sense of this parameter. (I feel tempted to write such sentences myself, but due to my relative lack of skill in chess I don't want to open myself up to criticism... I'll let the better chess players among us do the job).
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