Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 07:52:05 08/27/99
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On August 27, 1999 at 07:25:45, Georg v. Zimmermann wrote: >Every human chess player understands that a pawn more (without any compensation) >in a complicated tactical middlegame-position does not automatically mean >victory. >A pawn more in a standart K vs. K endgame does mean victory though. > >Computers do evaluate both positions with more or less + 1,0 while good players >would give +- and unclear/+=. > >Why don't computers have a material eval. like this ME = (Material inbalance) / >(all Material still on board) * X ? > >Or does your program ? Mine (at least) does. In fact... lots of things are proportional to the material left on the board. Outside passed pawns, passed pawns, etc...
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