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Subject: Re: Mobility in eval

Author: Andreas Mader

Date: 07:25:05 11/26/97

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On November 25, 1997 at 19:32:40, Bruce Moreland wrote:

>I'm not opposed to mobility terms, maybe they work.  If someone has
>experience with them, or knows of a professional program that *for sure*
>uses them (not just a deduction of the form, "they are very slow, so
>they must use mobility"), please let us know.
>
>I think it may be possible to be more sophisticated than this, without
>having to go to the trouble of iterating the pseudo-moves for the
>pieces.
>
>bruce

Nimzo98 uses mobility terms for sure and it is a very fast program, too.
I was involved in the design of the mobility evaluation, funny things
can happen if you evaluate the mobility of a piece too high :). The user
can change the weight of four general mobility factors ('normal'
mobility and 'x-ray' mobility in midgame and endgame) if he/she wants to
do experiments.

Andreas



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