Author: Randall Shane
Date: 15:32:48 01/18/00
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On January 18, 2000 at 05:34:16, Inmann Werner wrote: <massive snip of thread and context> >(I like to loose at ICC, cause you learn more out of a loose than out of a >win...) That is especially true down here in the peanut gallery of chess programming, where losses predominate. (BTW -- thanks, Will, for including FreeChecking in the Green List!) From my last few losses and careful study of my logs, I've learned that 1) My program has an evaluation design bug in that, in the middlegame with queens still on the board, it will cheerfully sacrifice a pawn in order to gain an unadvanced isolated passer, incidentally ripping its own kingside to shreds in the process... 2) For some reason I didn't notice until now that my branching factor is between 10 and 11 for non-frontier plies -- move ordering needs extensive work, probably a rewrite of it and the search... 3) My book really needs to be minimaxed to a degree -- but I'm having conceptual trouble coming up with a satisfactory way of handling loops in the opening book tree... Hey, but the programming's fun. If I could just get it to 1750 by the end of the year.....
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