Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 17:03:33 02/25/04
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On February 24, 2004 at 14:47:08, Gerd Isenberg wrote: >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. i prefer also left right mirrorring. I bet diep is one of the few programs still displaying the same score then :)
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