Author: Gerd Isenberg
Date: 12:28:37 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 Interactive eval tuning ;-) What about the same position without queens? I have slight minus for white - the rooks became stronger. Is that too much? [D] 3rr2k/pp5p/2p2pp1/8/2PP4/3B4/PBN2PPP/6K1 w - -
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