Answers.Body: <p>Toga Log also gives a breakdown of its evaluations.</p>
  
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Answers.Body: <p>Yes. Look at Stockfish 6. You can try it yourself.</p>
  
  <p>EDITED</p>
  
  <p>MG -> Middle Game
  EG -> End Game</p>
  
  <p>Most chess engines have a different set of evaluation or algorithm for an endgame. They could use it to model phase transition (e.g.: middle-game to end-game).</p>
  
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Answers.Text: That's confusing, what do MG and EG mean? Why are the white and black columns equal?
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Answers.Text: They're equal because the initial position is symmetry. Anything that black has is also something white has. Overall, the balance of the position is equal.
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Body: <p>Engines evaluate a position based on a number of factors - material imbalance, king safety, control of the center, pawn structure etc.
  My understanding is that they then combine these separate evaluations using a weighting for each (which can be adjusted), to produce a final score for the position.</p>
  
  <p>Is there an engine which can display a breakdown of the separate evaluations?</p>
  
  <p>For example:</p>
  
  <p>Material: 0.00
  King safety: -1.21
  Center control: +0.87</p>
  
  <p>Which means that material is equal, but black's king is less safe than whites, and white has better control of the center.</p>
  
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Title: Is there an engine which can give a breakdown of its evaluations
ThreadText: # Is there an engine which can give a breakdown of its evaluations
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2015-04-25)
  
  Engines evaluate a position based on a number of factors - material imbalance, king safety, control of the center, pawn structure etc.
  My understanding is that they then combine these separate evaluations using a weighting for each (which can be adjusted), to produce a final score for the position.
  
  Is there an engine which can display a breakdown of the separate evaluations?
  
  For example:
  
  Material: 0.00
  King safety: -1.21
  Center control: +0.87
  
  Which means that material is equal, but black's king is less safe than whites, and white has better control of the center.
  
  **Tags:** engines
  
  
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  ## 2 answers
  
  ### Answer by username_2 on 2015-04-25. Score: 4 | Accepted answer
  
  Yes. Look at Stockfish 6. You can try it yourself.
  
  EDITED
  
  MG -> Middle Game
  EG -> End Game
  
  Most chess engines have a different set of evaluation or algorithm for an endgame. They could use it to model phase transition (e.g.: middle-game to end-game).
  
  ![enter image description here](https://i.sstatic.net/bcReP.png)
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_3**: That's confusing, what do MG and EG mean? Why are the white and black columns equal?  
  > **username_2**: See my edited....  
  > **username_2**: They're equal because the initial position is symmetry. Anything that black has is also something white has. Overall, the balance of the position is equal.  
  > **username_4**: Also, how do you get that analysis? Which commands do you have to run?  
  
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  ### Answer by username_1 on 2019-03-14. Score: 0
  
  Toga Log also gives a breakdown of its evaluations.
  
  
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