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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