Author: Leen Ammeraal
Date: 11:05:54 01/24/02
In an evaluation function, it makes sense to count and reward attacks to occupied and free squares. However, this can be done in several ways. Currently, I have the following data available and I assign bonus points for all these three count results: a. counting each square that I attack at most once, regardless of the number of attackers and defenders for that square. b. counting all my attacks to squares, so this count is 2 for a square if both my knight and my bishop (and no other pieces of mine) attack it. c. counting all squares that I control in the sense that I attack it with a given piece and the opponent defends it only with more expensive pieces. For example, I regard a square in my control if I attack it with a pawn (and possibly other pieces as well), while the opponent may defend it with as many non-pawn pieces as he likes. If you have a opinion (preferably based on experience and chess knowledge) about the relative merits of these counts in an eval function, please indicate this by giving weight factors. For example: c 3, a 1, b 0 (if you regard b as useless). (I hope your answer will not be a 0, b 0, c 0 -;) Leen
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