Author: KarinsDad
Date: 12:10:39 05/19/00
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When I read your title, I was actually thinking that your were asking for something else. I thought you were asking for a standardized evaluation display where we come up with a bunch of rules for the evaluation with set values. Then, whenever we change the PV in our output, we not only calculate the evaluation that the program normally comes up with, but also the "standardized evaluation". For example: pawn +1 knight +3 bishop +3 rook +5 queen +9 mobility square per piece +0.02 controlled normal square +0.1 controlled square +0.15 controlled square next to enemy king +0.2 etc. This could have the potential to improve chess programs since the programmers could compare how their programs arrived at a score for a given position versus how the standard arrived at it's score for a given position. Sometimes, you will see two programs playing against each other where both programs think that they are losing. Programmers could take the data from such positions and figure out which evaluation parameters in their code may be causing their program to evaluate incorrectly since the standardized evaluation will either think it is a draw or that one program is winning (this of course assumes that the standardized evaluation is reasonably correct in most positions). I doubt anyone will do this, though, since getting a list of evaluation parameters which are reasonably correct for a majority of positions is probably unrealistic. But, it was a fun idea to toy around with. KarinsDad :)
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