Author: KarinsDad
Date: 13:57:23 09/20/99
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On September 20, 1999 at 16:30:18, Robert Hyatt wrote: [snip] > >King safety is a separate term... and don't forget, these scores are modified >by the material remaining on the board. The less material, the more a outside >passer or candidate outside passer is valued... And I only do the evaluation at >the endpoints of the tree, using traditional alpha/beta, I _never_ use the eval >to make forward pruning decisions or decisions that would say lets stop >searching this branch here and go no further... So, does this evaluation get done at every endpoint? If so, with a branching factor of 4, it would seem that you are still doing the evaluation on about 75% of the nodes. Is this correct? > >This is an interesting piece of code, piece of knowledge. It will be >interesting to see who doesn't have it now that I do, because it will become >obvious. IE I can tell you who doesn't know about the bishop trap at a2/h2/etc, >and who doesn't know much about outside/distant passers, because when I play >them suddenly this term becomes important. This majority term will likely >show up in similar ways for games that reach endgame status... You have a lot of GM contacts. I bet you could get from them other endgame pawn knowledge which would be very practical. KarinsDad :)
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