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Subject: Differing opinions: Hiarcs and Crafty

Author: Ralf Elvsén

Date: 09:36:18 08/29/99


This is a position from a game Hiarcs 7.32 - Crafty 16.6
Time 25 min/game, ChessBase interface etc, but that is not
important.

6k1/1p4p1/p7/2Ppp3/1P6/P4KP1/5P1P/8 b - - 0 49

What is interesting is that Crafty (black)
thinks the position is about even, with a score fluctuating
around equality, while Hiarcs for several plies
has realized that it has a won position and
has a score about +2 (an exchange of rooks has just
taken place some plies ago).

I checked 16.6 as a winboard engine, also 16.16:
same result.

This is a serious mis-evaluation of
the pawn structure since white easily can produce
passed pawns on both sides of the board, while
blacks connected free pawns can do nothing.

Bob, maybe you want to look into this...


Regards, Ralf




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