When the score is negative means that Black is better. Some examples:
5.00 is huge advantage for white.
2.00 is a strong advantage for white.
0.15 is minor advantage for white.
0.00 is a dead equal position.
-0.5 is a decent advantage for black.
-3.00 is a very strong advantage for black.
-10.00 is an advantage equivalent to a queen more.
Brilliant - thanks very much. Obvious when you understand. I'll get much more ouit of it now. Thanks again.
Is the advantage considered materially or positionally? For example, one side has a forced mate in 3 maneuvers, or one side is up knight (3-points)?
Is the advantage considered materially or positionally? For example, one side has a forced mate in 3 maneuvers, or one side is up knight (3-points)?
For the computer, material advantage is easier to evaluate but there is some kind of a way to evaluate positional advantage too. If there's a forced mate in 3 or one side is a knight up, the computer should have no problems evaluating the position. But if one side is a knight down but has significant attacking chances, this could be more problematic.
Is the advantage considered materially or positionally? For example, one side has a forced mate in 3 maneuvers, or one side is up knight (3-points)?
For the computer, material advantage is easier to evaluate but there is some kind of a way to evaluate positional advantage too. If there's a forced mate in 3 or one side is a knight up, the computer should have no problems evaluating the position. But if one side is a knight down but has significant attacking chances, this could be more problematic.
I found a position (or opening) that will fool even Fritz 12. And I have a decent computer mind you-(2GB or RAM on a 2.16 Procesor). I was looking into the Englund gambit the other day and something interesting occured. I saw a "good" line for black and I had the computer do an infinite analisis to evaluate the position. Fritz wasen't too impressed it was giving it +2.30 after almost 30 min of calculation- which should mean "BLACK IS DEAD LOST". So I wanted to see what winning line Fritz was seeing so I played the defence on the black side, and something very curious happed. Every move I made (common sense defence moves) Fritz began to doubt it's own evaluation (I wasen't just forcing it to move I was giving it at least 5 min per move here on ifinate analisis). After taking back a few moves (cuz I blundered) and finding some interesting lines Fritz could not make his "advantage" materialize even after 20 moves. At one point in fact I gave the resulting position an "HIGHLY unclear" evaluation, and Fritz had changed his mind about the Englund being useless. It was now +1.03 and in human terms it was completely playable. If you guys are interested I could post the line so your PCs can have a swing at it.
Can anybody explain to me the scoring you get in computer analysis after games? Each move gets scored things like (-0.15), (1.17) etc. But what does it mean. A mistake gets (1.50) but you would think it would be negative?
Don't understand what it is all about. Please explain.