Did Firoujza actually had a winning chance?

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Nay Lin Tun
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Did Firoujza actually had a winning chance?

Post by Nay Lin Tun »

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Based on controversial online debate that Firoujza missed a winning chance due to disturbance from Arbiters, I analysed with recent SF NNUE with 6 men TB , for 2.1 billion nodes, there was no winning chance for white.

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Re: Did Firoujza actually had a winning chance?

Post by mmt »

Looks like a draw with many 7 piece TBs also. 0.00.
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Re: Did Firoujza actually had a winning chance?

Post by MonteCarlo »

To be fair (although with being at the center of so many disputes it seems Alireza is either really unlucky or a bit of a diva), whether a position is drawn with perfect play is not the same as no winning chances in human play OTB.

Most human players saying "I have winning chances here" don't mean that it's objectively winning or even that an engine will give a high eval.

KRBkr gives good winning chances even at very high levels of human play (seems at least a couple top players manage to lose it each year), but that'll just give a flat modest eval with SF and TBs.

Still seems several silly decisions made in that Alireza episode all around.