Lets think about this in a little other way. You sacrifice a pawn and get some compensation in space and/or movability of your pieces. If you are not winning or loosing after this sacrifice you have 100% of a pawn in compensation. Now let say that you got some small compensation, but not good enough, in that case your compensation is somewhere between 0% of a pawn to 100% of the pawn.
In the example you gave about the value 0.06, white has 6% of pawn in advantidge. At least your computer program calculate it to be so...
After some time, in the some position the value is equel to 0.2 then white has an advantidge of 20% of a pawn. If this happen, the computer's calculation tells that the position for white is a bit stronger then it looks like in the beginning.
I was being fesicious in my quesion about 6% of a pawn.
I think only one guy saw the funny side and now I'm getting some
serious answrs which is making me feel lousy.
The first poster should have been told to throw that piece of junk
he has into the bin, buy a chess set, recommend a good book and
learn how to evaluate a chess position.
What position on a chessboard = 6% of pawn?
How you can you say such and such a position is 6% of anything?
If you tell me that White is 6% of a pawn ahead then Black must
be 94% of pawn behind.
And if 1.5% = White has a winning advantage.
So Black is losing by 98.5%.
In this case it must be that of the legal moves available to White
1.5% of them will not lose.
Of the legal moves available to Black 98.50% will not win.
What happens if Black stumbles upon the 1.5% chance he has
of not making a winning move? Has he turned a clear loss into a win?
(if so why did the computer not see this move?)
A position is either, better for one side, clearly winning for one side or equal.
(I suppose I'd better add 'unclear' which is usually given to positions that
have an odd material balance, eg a Queen for Rook, Knight and pawn)
6% of a pawn indeed, Bah!
My last post was only a way to show a different view of how to "visualise" what the value the computer shows. I hope that it is good for the person that started this threed. GP, I had also a (positive) smile when I read your post.
There are small difficulties here, and I don't really like to translate the value into procent, but we had started to do so, so I continue with it. I am not sure exactly how big the advantage must be to be winning, but it is surley more then 1,5% of a pawn (computer value = 0.015).
If we are playing strongly as white and later on the computer value = 1,5 then white has a lead with 150% of a pawn. That will not mean that 150% of all whites move are winning, which is impossible (here the winning moves can not be more then 100% ). Here we are probably mixing up apples with bannanas......