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

Author: Tord Romstad

Date: 02:02:36 12/29/05

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On December 29, 2005 at 04:49:09, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:

>On December 28, 2005 at 16:04:28, Tord Romstad wrote:
>
>>Perhaps you can even omit some
>>piece types.  I don't evaluate pawn or king mobility at all (in my
>>experience, there are better ways to evaluate king activity), and I
>>have never seen any measurable difference in strength when I
>>switch queen mobility on or off.
>
>What about knights?

Good question.   I have never tried disabling knight mobility, but
it is perfectly possible that a piece square table with high values
for central squares would work just as well as pseudo-legal
mobility for knights.

Tord

• Re: Mobility in Chess Evaluation Function at terminal-nodes Uri Blass 02:56:33 12/29/05
  • Re: Mobility in Chess Evaluation Function at terminal-nodes Uri Blass 02:58:50 12/29/05
    • Re: Mobility in Chess Evaluation Function at terminal-nodes Stuart Cracraft 10:52:49 12/29/05
      • Re: Mobility in Chess Evaluation Function at terminal-nodes Uri Blass 11:12:58 12/29/05
        • Re: Mobility in Chess Evaluation Function at terminal-nodes Stuart Cracraft 19:13:19 12/30/05

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