Answers.Body: <p>The score <strong>0.53/21</strong> means the chess engine evaluates the position after <strong>6... Ng8-f6</strong> at <strong>0.53</strong> pawns (or 53 centipawns) in <strong>White's favour</strong> after completing a search depth of <strong>21</strong> ply (or half-moves). It means White has a slight advantage.</p>
  <p>Similarly <strong>-0.25/24</strong> means the engine evaluates the position after <strong>6... e7-e6</strong> as <strong>0.25</strong> pawns (or 25 centipawns) in <strong>Black's favour</strong> after a search depth of 24 half-moves.</p>
  
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Answers.Text: @MartijnBurger basically high depth is always good. An engine could evaluate a position at 0.53/21 *and* also evaluate the position as -3.3/50. The latter evaluation, being at much higher depth (i.e. the engine needs to think longer to search that far ahead), should also be more accurate.
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Body: <p>I am anaylizing my games with Fritz to get better, but there is an annotation in the analysis that I do not fully understand. Here is an example:</p>
  <p><a href="https://i.sstatic.net/jHPRR.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/jHPRR.png" alt="Annotation example" /></a></p>
  <p>What do <strong>0.53/21</strong> and <strong>-0.25/24</strong> mean?</p>
  
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Title: What do the engine annotations 0.53/24 mean?
ThreadText: # What do the engine annotations 0.53/24 mean?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2021-01-03)
  
  I am anaylizing my games with Fritz to get better, but there is an annotation in the analysis that I do not fully understand. Here is an example:
  
  [![Annotation example](https://i.sstatic.net/jHPRR.png)](https://i.sstatic.net/jHPRR.png)
  
  What do **0.53/21** and **-0.25/24** mean?
  
  **Tags:** engines, fritz
  
  
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  ## 1 answers
  
  ### Answer by username_1 on 2021-01-03. Score: 6 | Accepted answer
  
  The score **0.53/21** means the chess engine evaluates the position after **6... Ng8-f6** at **0.53** pawns (or 53 centipawns) in **White's favour** after completing a search depth of **21** ply (or half-moves). It means White has a slight advantage.
  
  Similarly **-0.25/24** means the engine evaluates the position after **6... e7-e6** as **0.25** pawns (or 25 centipawns) in **Black's favour** after a search depth of 24 half-moves.
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_0**: What is the usefullness in knowing the search depth? Is it relevant for the reliability of the evaluation score?  
  > **username_2**: @username_0 If you could choose between an engine that looked 5 moves ahead and another that looked 20 moves ahead, regardless of whether they gave the same evaluation or not, in which engine's evaluation would you be more confident?  
  > **username_3**: @username_0 basically high depth is always good. An engine could evaluate a position at 0.53/21 *and* also evaluate the position as -3.3/50. The latter evaluation, being at much higher depth (i.e. the engine needs to think longer to search that far ahead), should also be more accurate.  
  
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