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Subject: Re: WAC #2

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 20:47:06 04/30/04

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On April 30, 2004 at 23:26:55, Andrew Wagner wrote:

>[snip]
>>
>>Black is already winning in position 2:
>>
>
>Right, I just meant the sac was losing, not the position. In fact, the first
>position is also winning without the sac, quite easily. My point with the second
>position was that where in the first position the two connected passed pawns
>made up for the difference of the rook, in the second position they weren't. I'm
>thinking it would be tricky to create a non-expensive eval term for such a
>complicated static evaluation. I mean, a human can look at it and quickly see
>"the king's not close enough", but that's not so easy for a computer to see
>without calculating.

It is not that hard either.  :)  I already do it.



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