Today, I played one of my first long chess games on chess.com (30 minutes). This is rare as I mostly play daily, bullet and blitz on this website. Don't get me wrong, I do play long chess games but most of it is over the board or on another site that I use.
Whenever I play long chess games, I always analyse it to the max. Quite literally... with another website, chess.com and Stockfish 13. However, I am starting to doubt the accuracy of the evaluation bar after today's game.
Before I explain why, let me show you the game (it can also be found on my profile, already analysed).
At move 13, after I make my move it says the position is basically draw. An evaluation score close to 0. However, I cannot fathom the idea of the game being a draw when I am a whole 4 points ahead (1 bishop and 1 pawn). How can this possibly be a draw? When I'm watching commentators analysing games, they talk about how being 1 pawn down is huge for grandmasters. 1 bishop is unwinnable.
So how is it possible for a game to be drawn when one player has a massive material advantage. I know computers are meant to be smart, a lot smarter than humans but should I continue to put my trust in computers because it doesn't seem like its very accurate.
Hmm, black has an attack against your king. The computers are telling you that the severity of the attack offsets your material advantage.
That should not be hard to understand. Remove your knight on e5 and you would get mated in two moves.
Today, I played one of my first long chess games on chess.com (30 minutes). This is rare as I mostly play daily, bullet and blitz on this website. Don't get me wrong, I do play long chess games but most of it is over the board or on another site that I use.
Whenever I play long chess games, I always analyse it to the max. Quite literally... with another website, chess.com and Stockfish 13. However, I am starting to doubt the accuracy of the evaluation bar after today's game.
Before I explain why, let me show you the game (it can also be found on my profile, already analysed).
At move 13, after I make my move it says the position is basically draw. An evaluation score close to 0. However, I cannot fathom the idea of the game being a draw when I am a whole 4 points ahead (1 bishop and 1 pawn). How can this possibly be a draw? When I'm watching commentators analysing games, they talk about how being 1 pawn down is huge for grandmasters. 1 bishop is unwinnable.
So how is it possible for a game to be drawn when one player has a massive material advantage. I know computers are meant to be smart, a lot smarter than humans but should I continue to put my trust in computers because it doesn't seem like its very accurate.