Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 18:20:24 06/10/01
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On June 10, 2001 at 19:35:46, Pete Galati wrote: >On June 10, 2001 at 15:19:44, Bruce Moreland wrote: > >>On June 10, 2001 at 12:54:40, Mogens Larsen wrote: >> >>>On June 10, 2001 at 12:27:28, Bruce Moreland wrote: >>> >>>>My basic approach will be to call the eval function, which thanks to a change >>>>made two days ago will probably recognize that the game is an endgame, and >>>>reward the program if its king is in the center. That's certainly good enough >>>>to win KQ vs K, and is probably good enough to win KR vs K. What more do you >>>>need than that? >>> >>>That sounds good enough to me. Just curious about your general approach, ie. >>>encouraging people en masse to add Nalimov EGTB support. >>> >>>Mogens. >> >>I don't know what your last sentence means. >> >>I think endgame databases are cool, and if I were going to distribute something >>that was designed for strength, I would include support for them, assuming I got >>permission from Eugene. >> >>This program is going to be fairly strong just because it will have most of the >>important pieces present, but I don't think it would gain much from having >>endgame tables, and it would get bigger and more complicated. >> >>I'm already having to restrain myself from adding tricky stuff. >> >>bruce > >Many of us will appreciate simplicity. An opening book would be more valuable >to somebody learning Chess programming, and I would think an ascii text type of >opening book like used in SCP would be the clearest least complicated way to go >for that. > >Pete I had thought about that. If there is anything that is reasonably standard, I'll try to find it and follow it. I'll check into that system, if I can find it. The Gnuchess book might also be an okay format to eat. I would like to eat something that doesn't depend on SAN. If I use SAN I'd like to use it everywhere, but it is annoying to mess with it in PV's, because SAN depends upon move legality. This makes it kind of difficult to do PGN. bruce
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