Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 08:50:50 10/22/99
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On October 22, 1999 at 04:56:50, blass uri wrote: >On October 22, 1999 at 03:24:11, Bernhard Bauer wrote: > ><snipped> >>May be you would better use Crafty, as >>Crafty has (at least to my knowlege) only one big hole - the null move hole. >>But if you look at a position you may get an opinion whether this may be a >>problem or not. > >I know about another hole:the evaluation of crafty is not symmetric and it >prefers open files so the evaluation may changed after a move. > >It may prefer slightly inferior move if it gives more open files. >I think that for analysis there should be an option to do the evaluation >symmetric. > >Uri For evaluation in analysis, it is _very_ symmetric. The only asymmetric term in 'analysis mode' is blocked pawns, and this can be zeroed out trivially by the user as the blocked pawn evaluation term can be 'scaled' to zero. (I will make this automatic in analysis mode, as I had not thought about it until just now). But asymmetric king safety is made symmetric in analysis mode. the output given previously pretty well shows that...
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