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Subject: King Safety

Author: Frank Phillips

Date: 00:44:51 08/12/00


I am trying to improve my king safety term in the evaluation function, but
without sufficient personal chess expertise to set a sensible benchmark.  Maybe
this is asking for information that people might not want to give, but with a
full set of opponents pieces, white castled kingside, h, g, f files open and
opponent castled queenside, how big is your  kingsafety bonus.  A knight, a pawn
……..?

Any thoughts on calibrating such terms are welcomed.  My positional evaluation
terms are an ad hoc set of numbers, bearing no particular relationship to each
other.  Generalised pieces values seem well established.  Has the chess
programming community evolved reference values for specific positional terms.

Frank



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