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Subject: Re: a test position from hiarcs-tiger

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 09:02:24 09/27/00

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On September 27, 2000 at 10:49:13, Uri Blass wrote:

>On September 27, 2000 at 10:39:33, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
><snipped>
>>Which piece square tables?
>>piece square tables won't help you much as they don't tell you the
>>king is without protection at the other side of the board.
>>
>>Diep is evaluating this as +1.151 for black, it sees the mate in 1 in
>>its qsearch however, so not even 1 ply needed to see mate in 1 here :)
>
>You are right that piece square tables do not tell that the king is without
>protection but the point is that I believe that in most of the cases when the
>king go to these squares it is without protection.
>
>I agree that it is better to see it by evaluation without piece square
>tables(for example you can see that there are no pawn near the white king) but I
>believe that if programs do not see it by better king safety evaluation then
>they can at least use better piece square tables
>
>I saw that the position was the end of the main line of Yace and a better
>evaluation could help Yace to avoid the mistake.
>
>Uri


So you think yace isn't doing more as a piece square table evaluation?

Programmer will be delighted hearing that i bet :)





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