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Subject: Re: Positions of known value?

Author: Tom Kerrigan

Date: 16:42:25 07/25/00

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On July 25, 2000 at 19:34:44, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On July 25, 2000 at 19:30:28, Tom Kerrigan wrote:
>[snip]
>>If my evaluation function gave positive scores to winning positions, it would
>>win all of its games, period. If the positive scores were random, it would
>>probably win in stupid ways, but it would still win.
>
>I think this is back to square one.
>This assumes that we have perfect knowlege so we *really* know that a winning
>move is a winning move.  We don't really know that.  Also, from any given

Right. I'm just talking about making an evaluation function that correlates well
with GM analysis/play. Surely there's no harm in that? I really doubt that you
would end up with a function that says +5 when Rebel says -300 or something
drastic like that. And if you do, who knows, maybe Rebel is way wrong.

-Tom



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