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Subject: Re: Positions of known value?

Author: Randall Shane

Date: 11:35:52 07/25/00

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On July 25, 2000 at 14:12:46, Tom Kerrigan wrote:

>It would be nice to make a change to your evaluation function and get immediate,
>accurate feedback.
>
>So my idea is to get a huge collection of positions of known value (i.e., "white
>has a stronger position") and then see how well the known values correlate to
>the evaluation function's scores.
>
>Does anybody have any ideas for getting a high-quality collection of such
>positions? Or any comments on this approach in general?
>
>-Tom

That could be interesting.  I think one would want to eliminate positions with
immediate successful tactics, but I'm not sure if that's reasonable.



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