Computer Chess Club Archives


Search

Terms

Messages

Subject: Re: Evaluation functions and databases

Author: James Robertson

Date: 17:49:33 12/20/98

Go up one level in this thread


On December 20, 1998 at 19:14:34, Mario Petrilli wrote:

>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.

The database is for you, not the program!!!

James



This page took 0 seconds to execute

Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700

Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.