Author: Uri Blass
Date: 20:34:50 03/31/03
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On March 31, 2003 at 22:46:36, Nathan Thom wrote: >On March 31, 2003 at 19:52:52, Anthony Cozzie wrote: > >>On March 31, 2003 at 19:40:19, Nathan Thom wrote: >> >>>Wahoo! My engine LittleThought has finally beaten me in a game (at 5secs per >>>move) in which I didnt make obvious stupid mistakes. I guess that puts its >>>rating at about 1300 - still a way to go yet... >>> >>>All the bugs seem to be finally ironed out, now i can concentrate on building >>>the evaluation and telling it how to actually mate me with KRvK instead of >>>randomly wondering around the board! >> >>congrats ;) I remember when Zappa first started beating me. Now I have no >>chance against it - it just sees too much tactically. >> >>side note: an engine should be able to solve KRvK w/out any heuristics. >> >>anthony > >it would if i had of given it more time per move, but with only a material/piece >square eval it didnt have a clue how to procede. Only material piece square table for king in the endgame is enough to win KR vs K. The piece square table should tell the king to like the centre of the board and not the corner. If your engine has only 1300 then I think that it has big problems in it's search or bugs that you should correct before thinking about better evaluation. The main important thing for improvement of chess engines is search and not evaluation. Uri
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