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Subject: Re: typical: a sensation happens and nobody here registers it !

Author: Thorsten Czub

Date: 01:19:00 10/19/00

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On October 17, 2000 at 17:29:04, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>Of course it isn't...  but that was an example only.  I have seen games where
>the big score turned into a lost endgame.  I only noticed that one as our
>scores were over +3 _different_.

the score of the chess program is not the target of the game.
the target of the game is to get this point.

if your evaluation function produces jumping scores, fine.
if it produces 0.00 all the time, fine.

as long as the program PLAYS good AND gets points, the score is completely
unimportant.



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