Sorry if this is an obvious question, but is there somewhere I can read about the Game Chart and scroing? After every game there's the option to look at the game chart. When I look at it it pretty much always has both our scores low, then slowing getting higher, and then at some point, both black and white's scores go up to near max (somewhere close to 9999). (With mine usually falling way down, sometimes all the way to zero, then coming back up if I win...) What does this mean, and why does the other side (black, when I'm playing white) have pretty much the same score as me at the end (9999) even if I'm winning convincingly?

Score tells you how mentor personality judges the position. In chart the score is given in centipawns (100=1 pawn), in mentor lines the score is given in pawns (1.00=1 pawn). So 534 in chart and 5.34 in mentor lines, means the same.

Positive number means that white is better, negative score means that black is better.

At the beginning the position is equal, so of course the score is low. In strarting position the score is about 25, meaning that white is better for a quarter of a pawn. Thats how much worth is the right to first move supposed to be.

Where the score changes dramatically, this is where you made a big mistake.

Very high scores mean that the mate is visible. Score 9995 means that white has a mate in 5. Score -9992 means black has a mate in 8.

Of course the scores from whites and blacks point of view are the same. If you are white you say: "Hey I have a mate in 4!" (so the score is 9996). If you are black you say: "Damn, white has a mate in 4." But the score is still 9996. It can't be -9996 (meaning that black would have a mate in 4) or something else because black can't escape mate in 4.

Ah! Ok, Now I understand. Thanks for the clear explanation.