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Subject: Re: + 1,0

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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