Author: Gerd Isenberg
Date: 11:47:08 02/24/04
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On February 24, 2004 at 14:42:13, Gerd Isenberg wrote: >On February 24, 2004 at 11:08:40, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On February 24, 2004 at 10:37:48, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >> >>>On February 23, 2004 at 14:19:35, Jaime Benito de Valle Ruiz wrote: >>> >>>>Ok, I know it was my choice, but several people have already pointed out that >>>>it'd be a more sensible idea to give the scores for white (positive = white >>>>wins, negative = black wins). >>>>I thought that it'd be better to suggest this change now that we have just >>>>started. >>>> >>>>Anyone has any strong argument against it? (hope not) >>> >>>Yes. >>> >>>It's better to make all positions white to move, that solves the problem easier >>>than this 'rule'. >>> >>>If people have asymmetric eval then which takes care they misevaluate the >>>position, bad luck for them :) >> >> >>That makes no sense. A position with black king at e7, white king at e5, white >>pawn at e4 makes a great deal of sense to have either white to move or black to >>move, and changing it makes no sense. Black to move and white wins. White to >>move and it is a draw. The eval ought to handle that correctly... > > >To avoid the white versus side to move score chaos, it makes sense to mirror all >current black to move positions vertically with white to move. Oups, with mirror vertically i mean white pawn on e2 becomes black pawn on e7 and so on.
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