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Subject: Re: Yep :)

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 14:11:03 09/16/03

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On September 16, 2003 at 16:28:05, Russell Reagan wrote:

>On September 16, 2003 at 14:27:32, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>This usually means "with respect to color".
>
>So an example of an asymmetrical evaluation would be one that values its own
>pieces slightly more than those of the opponent? IE my_queen = 9.1,
>opponent_queen = 9.0. I've seen people create ChessMaster personalities that use
>this to avoid exchanging queens against human opponents, unless there is some
>position gain worth 0.1.


That's certainly one way to do this...  And that's the basic idea, that some
"characteristic" of the board is bad or good, not with respect to the color,
but with respect to which side the computer is playing.




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