Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 12:02:13 11/03/05
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On November 02, 2005 at 23:30:36, Jon Dart wrote: >This arose in an offline test game: >[D] 5R2/r5k1/3p2b1/p1pB4/P1P2R1p/1PP3p1/4r2p/5N1K b - - > >Arasan rates Black well ahead according to a static eval, >but Black is in fact in trouble, and lost after >Re1 Kg2 Re2+ Kh3 Re4 Bxe4 Bxe4 Nxh2 g2 Nf3 Bxf3 Kh2 .. >when the Black pawns are blocked. Both the passed pawn >eval and king safety eval kick in here so it is a bit >tricky to evaluate. Arasan rates the Black pawns >too highly in this position. > >Crafty 19.17 rates this a slight + for White. > >--Jon I am not sure this is an "eval test". A static eval by crafty says -2.7 on the latest version. But tactics show that black's pawns are too far advanced and are going to mostly disappear and get blockaded while white's file control is hard to deal with... This looks more like searching deeply enough to see the resulting positions, rather than evaluating what the resulting positions _might_ look like later...
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