Author: Peter Fendrich
Date: 11:34:28 09/26/98
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On September 25, 1998 at 20:06:57, Danniel Corbit wrote: >Dr. Hyatt answered this partially already in r.g.c.c., but only as far as saying >it has to do with tuning. > >In a case like the position in the root post for this thread -- do programs give >a different value for an advanced pawn? Do they simply consider factors of >position and grant a structural score? > >How *exactly* would a computer come to a conclusion about a position like the >one given? Once Philidor said something like "the pawns are the soul of chess" and this is very true for programs as well... In the old times, 10 years ago(!) the best way to determine if it was a computer or human game, was o see how the pawns were handled. Sometimes you could see horrible pawn moves that humans *never* would do. Today, I think that the best programs has a lot of pawn knowledge. They knows about minority attacks, blocking pawns on right or wrong color and things like that. But now and then these horrible pawn moves still pops up... //Peter
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