Author: Mario Petrilli
Date: 16:14:34 12/20/98
I've noticed that quite a few of the professional chess programs claim as a positive feature of their software package the inclusion of a large games database. Why is this not a demerit of the evaluation function? That is, if the evaluation function is sufficiently strong, it should not require a database. Rather, it should perform an evaluation purely based on the intrinsic properties of the chess position. Anyone with knowledge of evaluation functions please comment.
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