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Subject: Re: Engines valutation question

Author: Reinhard Scharnagl

Date: 13:59:29 08/03/04

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On August 03, 2004 at 05:57:27, Uri Blass wrote:

>On August 03, 2004 at 04:54:11, morphy wrote:
>
>>Why the valutation is always referred to the material advantage (where a pawn in
>>more is the unit) and we can't have a valutation in tems of percentage of
>>probability for winning and drawing?
>
>because we(the programmers) are stupid.
>
>If you are smarter than us you can write a program that calculates probabilities
>instead of pawns and your program is going to be number 1.
>
>Uri

Uri, I do not fully agree. Only if the probabilities would strictly correspond
to reality, it might come as you predict. To specify any probabilities seems to
be no real problem, but to fit them to true experienced values really is one.

Regards, Reinhard.



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