Author: Jay Scott
Date: 12:19:46 01/08/01
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On January 07, 2001 at 20:57:46, Ricardo Gibert wrote: >My question is: Do any programs take this into account or do they all consider >the 2nd pawn they grab to be as valuable as the 1st? I think that programs which take this into account do it by scaling the positional score rather than the material score. By tradition, the value of a pawn is constant. I believe this does cause some mistakes in pawn-up and pawn-down positions. Programs are sometime too willing to take a second pawn. This is one of the reasons that I keep recommending a probability-to-win or a decision-theoretic utility evaluation function over a traditional material-based evaluation. Jay
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