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Subject: Re: Is white winning? Comments from strong players wanted

Author: Anthony Cozzie

Date: 16:05:31 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

Zappa's static eval favors *black* by a full pawn :)

 = (-0.99)	Depth: 0/0	00:00:00.00	1N

1. d4-d5 Kh8-g7 2. Nc2-e3 c6xd5 3. c4xd5 b7-b6 4. h2-h4 Qf7-e7 5. h4-h5 Qe7-d6
6. h5xg6 h7xg6
 = (0.27)	Depth: 12/21	00:00:16.10	14239kN
1. d4-d5 Kh8-g7 2. Nc2-e3 c6xd5 3. c4xd5 Qf7-e7 4. Bd3-b5 Re8-g8 5. d5-d6 Rd8xd6
6. Bb2-a3 Rg8-d8 7. Ba3xd6
 = (0.39)	Depth: 13/24	00:00:39.34	36762kN

anthony



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