marcin-rzeznicki
commented
1 year ago Ah, one more example - hope it is going to be helpful in assessing what to do.
In this position the b5-pawn is labelled yellow, as sufficiently defended. Obviously, it's misleading. If it is White's move then 1.Rxb5 simply wins this pawn - Black would not be able to recapture with the queen - if he had recaptured, he would have lost a queen for a rook and a knight = bad. Therefore yellow label is simply misleading
benini
Hi, I've been using SCID for quite some time, and it's pretty cool, but one thing irritates me a lot. The gloss of danger (I think that's the name). For instance
In the position above, both Black's d5-pawn and White's e5-pawn are coded red. This is too oversimplified. Yes, the black pawn on d5 is attacked 4 times and defended only 2 times, similarly the white pawn on e5 is attacked 2 times and defended only once. However, none of these captures make much sense as White would simply lose a piece for a pawn trying to capture on d5, ditto Black. Obviously none of the pawns are really in danger.
The same argument can be made for the e6-pawn: yes, it's attacked once and defended once - but it's defended by the f7-pawn, while it's attacked by the f4-knight - so the 'yellow' label does not really make much sense.
I would suggest to take into the account cases like this one (a pawn defended by a pawn and attacked by some pieces), while showing the "danger level"