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Subject: Re: Attacked oppenents squares - why not?

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 17:24:43 11/05/00

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On November 05, 2000 at 17:53:18, Pham Minh Tri wrote:

>Hi,
>I know that "attacked opponents squares" value is one of the important factor
>for evaluation function. However, some of free chess engines like Crafty, GNU
>chess seem not to use it. So I was wondering why.
>Thanks in advance for any explanation.
>Pham


Crafty does use this, where appropriate.  IE king safety.  It also uses this
in Swap() to evaluate captures on a given square...

If you mean the classic definition of "space" then I don't evaluate that in
the usual sense, no...



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