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Subject: Re: How is the cAP-code in Crafty 17.0 doing?

Author: Torstein Hall

Date: 10:21:21 10/23/99

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On October 23, 1999 at 12:52:11, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On October 23, 1999 at 11:14:07, Michel Langeveld wrote:
>
>>Thanks in advance.
>>
>>I want to try it myself ;-)!!!
>>
>>Michel Langeveld
>
>
>It is too early to say.  Compared to the opening book I use, less than 100K
>of the positions have CAP scores.  Which means that many positions have no
>data at all.
>
>Another problem is that the CAP data is of the form
>
>  <position>  <score>  <best move>
>
>I can use that... but what I _really_ need to do, and I don't have the code
>to do yet, is to do a simple minimax of the CAP scores back up thru the book.
>IE if the best move in position P is Rh1 with a score of +1.3, then I need to
>know that any move that leads to position P (with no cap score in the file)
>ought to have a score of -1.3.  I don't do this yet, which hurts.  I think it
>will be even more useful once I have time to write that code.

What is CAP scores?

Torstein



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