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Subject: Re: Initiative in chess

Author: Reinhard Scharnagl

Date: 03:02:02 11/18/05

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On November 18, 2005 at 05:46:52, Daniel Shawul wrote:

Hi Daniel,

>A question for chess experts.

nevertheless I try to describe SMIRF's solution for this.

>How important is to be the side to play? (in centi pawns if possible)
>I think it is very important in queen pawn endings (where the queen can
>continously give check), but less important in others. In Zugzwang postions like
>pawn endgames, it might be a mistake all in all.

I do not work with position's evaluations directly, but use a kind of average
of that and of the prior move. That lets me forget that problem.

Regards, Reinhard.



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