Answers.Body: <p>How to Evaluate a Chess Position would cover up a Book or two . There would be some infinite Chess Advices from different GMs in respective Positions .It is also a Time factor parameter . It really matters how much time you have on Clock to determine the various elements . </p>
  
  <p>Some of the Simplest way to determine is </p>
  
  <ol>
  <li><p>How many Pieces are Active on respective side . You can count the number of squares occupied by your Opponent's pieces .</p></li>
  <li><p>Who has an Attack ? I mean whose pieces are covering up on a particular side of the Board . </p></li>
  <li><p>Is your King safe and Opponent's Bishops , Rooks are not pointing towards your King .</p></li>
  <li><p>Do you have a Passed Pawn and Opponent's Pieces are tied up to block the parser .</p></li>
  <li><p>let's assume you are in Middle game and you have a chance to exchange the Pieces and go to End Game directly . You have two Pawns one on either side of the flanks and your Opponent has the same material (two Pawns) and on same side of your King where it can Blockade easily .</p></li>
  </ol>
  
  <p>So above are some of the factors where Position can be evaluated and you can make the Critical decision .</p>
  
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    <p>Is posible only with a static evaluation of the board to get a correct Score about who side Is in best position?</p>
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  <p>Not sure what you consider <em>correct Score</em>. You can certainly evaluate a score for the current position basically in the same way that engines do, giving points for material, piece activity... And that's what humans do first when looking at a position: they look for material imbalances, piece activity, space advantage, king safety, etc and end up with an evaluation of the position including an idea about who is better.</p>
  
  <p>Based on this evaluation you would develop a general plan: do I need to improve piece activity, do I need to defend my king,...?</p>
  
  <p>Only then you would think of concrete ways to implement this plan, candidate moves and calculate variations. Because of the initial analysis of the position you would already have limited the number of variations that you want to calculate.</p>
  
  <p>Obviously if you calculate a score from the current and possible future positions like engines do, the score will be more reliable than if you only calculate a score from the current position.</p>
  
  <p>I can think of two exceptions to all this and that is </p>
  
  <ol>
  <li>forced lines, where you don't have much choice (e.g. re-capture after a capture, getting out of check,...). </li>
  <li>highly tactical concrete positions, where an evaluation on general principles will be useless and you won't be able to get a meaningful score without considering possible variations.</li>
  </ol>
  
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Body: <p>I was wondering if the only way to evaluate a position is by looking for next moves like a chess engine does.</p>
  
  <p>Is it possible with only a static evaluation of the board to get a correct evaluation about which side has the best position?</p>
  
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Comments.Text: That's not how engines evaluate a position. It's fairly trivial to set up, or even find, positions, where one side has more material, or other advantages, but cannot avoid a forced mate.
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Comments.Text: You don't think like an engine.
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Comments.Text: No i dont, but that Is not the question literally, not just engines look for next combinations moves, People also do it. Tha question Is if there's a way to know if Is a good position for White or Black without looking the next moves
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Comments.Text: People are normally scoring end positions of variations, so scoring positions is the most normal thing for chess players. We are usually trying to eliminate tactics as evaouation function is quite static. You can quickly evaluate how deep search is needed based on piece placement and possible tactics. By scoring starting position you make mistake in solid percentage of cases as you apply static function on too dynamic problem. That's point of calculating and you can hardly make it useless part of chess play.
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Title: Ways to evaluate a position?
ThreadText: # Ways to evaluate a position?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2017-03-04)
  
  I was wondering if the only way to evaluate a position is by looking for next moves like a chess engine does.
  
  Is it possible with only a static evaluation of the board to get a correct evaluation about which side has the best position?
  
  **Tags:** analysis, positional-play
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_1**: That's not how engines evaluate a position. It's fairly trivial to set up, or even find, positions, where one side has more material, or other advantages, but cannot avoid a forced mate.  
  > **username_2**: You don't think like an engine.  
  > **username_0**: No i dont, but that Is not the question literally, not just engines look for next combinations moves, People also do it. Tha question Is if there's a way to know if Is a good position for White or Black without looking the next moves  
  > **username_3**: People are normally scoring end positions of variations, so scoring positions is the most normal thing for chess players. We are usually trying to eliminate tactics as evaouation function is quite static. You can quickly evaluate how deep search is needed based on piece placement and possible tactics. By scoring starting position you make mistake in solid percentage of cases as you apply static function on too dynamic problem. That's point of calculating and you can hardly make it useless part of chess play.  
  
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  ### Answer by username_4 on 2017-03-05. Score: 1
  
  How to Evaluate a Chess Position would cover up a Book or two . There would be some infinite Chess Advices from different GMs in respective Positions .It is also a Time factor parameter . It really matters how much time you have on Clock to determine the various elements .
  
  Some of the Simplest way to determine is
  
  1. How many Pieces are Active on respective side . You can count the number of squares occupied by your Opponent's pieces .
  2. Who has an Attack ? I mean whose pieces are covering up on a particular side of the Board .
  3. Is your King safe and Opponent's Bishops , Rooks are not pointing towards your King .
  4. Do you have a Passed Pawn and Opponent's Pieces are tied up to block the parser .
  5. let's assume you are in Middle game and you have a chance to exchange the Pieces and go to End Game directly . You have two Pawns one on either side of the flanks and your Opponent has the same material (two Pawns) and on same side of your King where it can Blockade easily .
  
  So above are some of the factors where Position can be evaluated and you can make the Critical decision .
  
  
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  ### Answer by username_5 on 2017-03-04. Score: 0
  
  > Is posible only with a static evaluation of the board to get a correct Score about who side Is in best position?
  
  Not sure what you consider *correct Score*. You can certainly evaluate a score for the current position basically in the same way that engines do, giving points for material, piece activity... And that's what humans do first when looking at a position: they look for material imbalances, piece activity, space advantage, king safety, etc and end up with an evaluation of the position including an idea about who is better.
  
  Based on this evaluation you would develop a general plan: do I need to improve piece activity, do I need to defend my king,...?
  
  Only then you would think of concrete ways to implement this plan, candidate moves and calculate variations. Because of the initial analysis of the position you would already have limited the number of variations that you want to calculate.
  
  Obviously if you calculate a score from the current and possible future positions like engines do, the score will be more reliable than if you only calculate a score from the current position.
  
  I can think of two exceptions to all this and that is
  
  1. forced lines, where you don't have much choice (e.g. re-capture after a capture, getting out of check,...).
  2. highly tactical concrete positions, where an evaluation on general principles will be useless and you won't be able to get a meaningful score without considering possible variations.
  
  
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