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Subject: Re: Chessknowledge Assignment & Material Value Assessment

Author: Vine Smith

Date: 19:36:43 04/30/01

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Yikes! I just read through Crafty's evaluate.c file, and these factors don't
have fixed values, they're contingent and vectorized and adjusted, etc. Assuming
most programs have evaluation functions this sophisticated, nobody, not even the
programmers, will be able to give you more than averages, or minima-maxima
values. Why not feed the current position against DS to a program, and then
adjust the position in non-tactically significant ways to see how the evaluation
changes? So making the Bb7 into a knight (on g2 maybe) would tell you what the
program thinks of having the two bishops in this situation. Shifting pawns about
could give you the value of the passers. And so on.
Regards,
Vine Smith



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