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Subject: Re: Mobility in Chess Evaluation Function at terminal-nodes

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 12:27:34 12/28/05

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On December 28, 2005 at 15:22:56, Roman Hartmann wrote:

>I just added mobility to my eval and while it kills my kN/s (brought them from
>1000kN/s down to around 100kN/s) it doesn't seem to hurt the play. But I guess I
>have to let it play some games first before I make a conclusion. If it's
>improving the positional play without causing too much tactical dammage I will
>add a stripped down movegenerator for mobility as I have now quite some overhead
>having a legal-move-generator with incremental eval (means the eval is in the
>movegenerator).

How are you calculating mobility?
A 10:1 loss in speed is very traumatic.
Unless you are only counting wood in your evaluation, you should not see that
traumatic of a degradation.



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