Author: martin fierz
Date: 09:20:02 02/20/04
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On February 20, 2004 at 11:50:30, Tord Romstad wrote: >In a blitz game between Gothmog and Phalanx, played earlier today, the following >position was reached: > >[D]3rr2k/pp3q1p/2p2pp1/8/2PP4/3B1Q2/PBN2PPP/6K1 w - - > >Without doing a search, Gothmog thinks white has a winning advantage. The >static eval returns a score of +2.0, despite approximate material equality. >The big plus score for white seems to be almost entirely because of the >bishop pair (my bishop pair bonus is really big when the opposite side >has no minor pieces) and the weakness of black's a1-h8 diagonal. > >To this patzer's eyes, an advantage of +2 in this position seems to be >way too much. Should I have a closer look at my bishop pair bonus, or is >Gothmog's assesment of the position really OK? > >Tord hi tord, 2.0 seems excessive to me. muse 0.885 says 0.33 as static eval. i would say the truth is somewhere in between... in any case, i wouldn't be happy if my engine reported 2.0 for this. perhaps white is winning, but i don't think a static eval can judge this properly. it's really a question of whether the black rooks find anything useful to do, which at the moment isn't too easy. if they do, then black should be ok; if not, he is in trouble. cheers martin
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