The evaluation of a given position
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How is average centipawn loss calculated when a mate is missed?
As far as I know, to calculate the average centipawn loss, we calculate S1 - S0 for every move, where S1 is the evaluation (in centipawns) of the position before the move and S0 is the evaluation (in centipawns) of the position after the move.
Let's…
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What is considered a decisive evaluation of a board in chess?
Following on from this question, it was suggested in answer and a discussion in the comments that an evaluation of a board of +1.5 is 'decisive' in the sense of allowing an estimation of which side would win with reasonable certainty.
However, this…
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What does autopilot mean in chess?
I've seen people saying things like "from now on this is just autopilot" or "autopilot from move 20"
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Trying to understand evaluation
I'm looking at this position.
[Title "White to move: +10"]
[StartFlipped "0"]
[FEN "r3kb1r/2pnp1p1/p3Bn1p/8/Np1Pq3/4B3/PP21PPP/R2Q1RK w kq - 0 1"]
Material is even, and in my inexperience I don't see an immediate advantage as white. Meanwhile,…
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Why 6.Qf3 is bad in this game/position?
I played this game a few days ago with a friend of mine which is quite stronger than me. I also report here the position after 6.Qf3 to clarify a little bit more, in the game I was white:
[title "Me - My Friend"]
[fen…
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Chess evaluation function
I am trying to write a program to learn how to play chess. I have heard of programs that you can enter in a set of weights for certain parameters such as rook value, queen value and bishop mobility. And then, the program will output what move it…
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