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Subject: Re: Chess program improvement project (copy at Winboard::Programming)

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 19:01:53 03/06/06

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Tactical strength is a necessary, but not sufficent, condition for general chess
playing strength.

Most problems with WAC come from:
1. Bugs in search, eval etc.  Is your eval symmetric?
2. Evaluation problems (especially king safety and passed pawn evaluation)
3. Search inefficiency (branching factor of a good program is definitely under
4)




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