Author: David Dahlem
Date: 11:16:04 09/07/03
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On September 07, 2003 at 14:04:19, Uri Blass wrote: >On September 07, 2003 at 13:52:21, David Dahlem wrote: > >>On September 07, 2003 at 13:16:50, Uri Blass wrote: >> >>>On September 07, 2003 at 11:35:48, JW de Kort wrote: >>> >>>>Hi friends, >>>> >>>> >>>>I have recently spend a lot of time improving my evaluationfunction. I have >>>>added a lot of features and studied a number of sources (Crafy, Gerbil, TSCP, >>>>Phalanx, Beowulf etc.). Still my engine is not able to beat TCSP 181 in all >>>>games. Now i want to fine tune the evaluation features. Can anybody give me some >>>>advice how to ga ahead with this process? Is there a EPD set available of good >>>>testing positions for this purpose? >>>> >>>>Thnak in advance. >>>> >>>>Jan Willem >>> >>>What is your target? >>> >>>If your target is to improve your engine then I think that it is better if you >>>work about search. >>> >>>Gerbil has almost no evaluation but it is clearly better than tscp and the >>>reason is search. >>> >>>Uri >> >>And Gerbil would be even better with an improved evaluation! >> >>Dave > >Gerbil also can be better with improved search. > >My point is that if you are not at the level to be clearly better than tscp >then search is the main thing that can help you to improve your engine. > >Uri My point is improvements in any area will make an engine better, but the original post was asking about how to improve evaluation. Dave
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