Author: Gareth McCaughan
Date: 16:09:12 06/04/00
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On June 03, 2000 at 12:49:03, Albert Silver wrote: > What rules would you suggest? There are some obvious ones, but there are also > very disputable ones that have too many exceptions to be of much use, > other than to a human player. I know that many of the program have the ? more obvious ones such as the advantage of rook and bishop vs. rook and > knight, or bishop vs. knight in pawn endings with pawns on both wings, > BUT knight over bishop if the pawns or connected on the same wing, etc... > What other rules though? Most positions admit too many exceptions for > to be of much use, and really just have to be played out. By not special-casing positions like this, you adopt the general rule that they're no different from other positions with the same balance of material. That's probably wrong more often than, say, deducting half a pawn in positions "like this one" (whatever that might mean). Every term in the evaluation of every chess program (apart from things that handle forced wins and draws) represents a general principle that has exceptions.
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