Author: Pete Galati
Date: 18:53:09 06/10/01
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On June 10, 2001 at 21:20:24, Bruce Moreland wrote: >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. You can get a copy of SCP on my basically unmaintained website-o-deadlinks http://members.nbci.com/avochess/avochess.htm , just search for SCP, and it's the second one, and I think Dann has it somewhere too. >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 San makes a nice utility, but it's code is annoying. It be easy for people with some programming education, but for the rest of us, it's confusing. Pete
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