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Subject: Re: Knowledge again, but what is it?

Author: Jay Scott

Date: 13:16:34 02/25/98

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On February 25, 1998 at 08:03:07, George Essig wrote:

>I have wondered why programs evaluations are measured in pawns intead of
>probablilities of winning.  Has no one done this?

This is something I've advocated. I think it's valuable for a
program's evaluation to have an absolute meaning, because then
you can tell, from actual game statistics, whether the
evaluation is well-tuned.

I'm heartened by the other replies: people are taking it seriously.

  Jay



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