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Subject: Re: Research idea? re: weight optimization

Author: Tom Kerrigan

Date: 04:51:10 12/29/01

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On December 29, 2001 at 06:34:12, Sune Fischer wrote:

>I think if you took 1 million GM games and did a history "heuristics" on them,
>we would get an "idea" of how often a GM places the knights on c3 or e5 or....
>Some basic analysis would then give you a good table score.

BTW, I have done this and the results are crap. I don't think there's a good way
to translate move frequency into location desirability, i.e., GMs play Nf3 a
heck of a lot more than Ne5, but f3 is not a better location for a knight than
e5 is...

-Tom



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