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Subject: Re: Positions of known value?

Author: Pete R.

Date: 16:54:02 07/25/00

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On July 25, 2000 at 19:35:50, Tom Kerrigan wrote:

>I've tried something like that.
>
>I wrote a program to go through a few dozen of Kasparov's wins. It did a 2-ply
>search on every position and gave itself a point if it correctly predicted
>Kasparov's move.
>
>At first it seemed like the number of points was useful and it was easy to tune
>my evaluation function to maximize the points. But then I found out that while I
>was maximizing the points for 2-ply searches, the number for 4-ply searches was
>dropping. So it was actually counterproductive. :(
>
>-Tom

I'm assuming that there can't be any immediate tactics going on in the position
at all, and I'm not sure how many test suites have such positions, but you would
likely have to hand pick them.



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