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Subject: Re: Zugzwang!

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 17:13:51 07/28/99

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On July 28, 1999 at 17:05:53, Kristo Miettinen wrote:

>On a lark, I decided to ask Crafty to analyze the opening position in chess
>without benefit of an opening book.
>
>To my surprise, in iteration after depth iteration, Crafty returned a mild
>negative evaluation.
>
>Is this for real? And if so, is it the quirky symptom of an otherwise useful
>characteristic in Crafty?
>
>Just curious!
>
>Sine cera,
>
>-Kristo.


It is just a bit of mild asymmetry in the "EvaluateDevelopment()" code.  If I
don't do this, it will either develop its own pieces or else prevent you from
developing yours.  It generally works better to develop its own first...  and
this helps...




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