Why is the evaluation bar on these live games so different from the eval bar on my phone? The position on live game says “white is demolishing black” and on phone says “white just has a pawn more than black”. Is it just a matter of processing power? Does it really matter if engine is like 3500 vs 3700?

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Interesting thanks! So basically a big event like this will rent cloud compute to do major processing to get the bar we see on screen. I also assume that for a game like this (between world #1 and #2) you need to look far ahead whereas for my own noob games the phone has a pretty good idea of who’s better 😅

At the limit, there are actually moves engines don’t consider, 25 moves down the line; this is a processing power thing
I also expect multi hundred gaps in Elo to matter even at 3.5

Can lead to funny situations with an engine when you’re playing…..

It’s the depth. The online chess engine won’t have that much depth and so won’t see too far ahead the possibilities.