Author: Pete Galati
Date: 16:35:46 06/10/01
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On June 10, 2001 at 15:19:44, Bruce Moreland wrote: >On June 10, 2001 at 12:54:40, Mogens Larsen wrote: > >>On June 10, 2001 at 12:27:28, Bruce Moreland wrote: >> >>>My basic approach will be to call the eval function, which thanks to a change >>>made two days ago will probably recognize that the game is an endgame, and >>>reward the program if its king is in the center. That's certainly good enough >>>to win KQ vs K, and is probably good enough to win KR vs K. What more do you >>>need than that? >> >>That sounds good enough to me. Just curious about your general approach, ie. >>encouraging people en masse to add Nalimov EGTB support. >> >>Mogens. > >I don't know what your last sentence means. > >I think endgame databases are cool, and if I were going to distribute something >that was designed for strength, I would include support for them, assuming I got >permission from Eugene. > >This program is going to be fairly strong just because it will have most of the >important pieces present, but I don't think it would gain much from having >endgame tables, and it would get bigger and more complicated. > >I'm already having to restrain myself from adding tricky stuff. > >bruce Many of us will appreciate simplicity. An opening book would be more valuable to somebody learning Chess programming, and I would think an ascii text type of opening book like used in SCP would be the clearest least complicated way to go for that. Pete
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