Author: James Robertson
Date: 17:49:33 12/20/98
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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
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