Author: Marcus Prewarski
Date: 09:28:57 11/20/03
I've been completely rewriting the evaluation function of my engine DrunkenMaster (not a strong one) because I was tired of seeing it make some really ugly moves and I want to give it better knowledge of king safety and pins and better passed pawn evals. When I watch it play 5 minute games against an earlier version it seems like the evaulation is better overall. However it seems like these evaluation changes have made the branch factor a bit worse in several test postions I have. And it performs worse in WAC test suites which seems to agree with my observations. I would think that improving my evaluation function would improve the search branch factor if anything. So my question is does this mean that my newer evaluation function is actually worse in most cases than my old one or could it be something else like my move ordering is bad to begin with? -Marcus
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