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Subject: Re: Good, Bad and Active Bishop

Author: Dan Andersson

Date: 15:30:24 01/10/02

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My main point is that the search and evaluator must work together. In mid level
chess programs there are often jarring jumps in evaluation between moves. That
does not happen often in games between top programs. Only once or twice in the
positions when the tactical break of the game occurs. With Gambit Tiger it also
happens in the transition between attack and endgame. If you wish to attribute
that to inferior evaluators, so be it. But it is damn hard to retrofit a
reasonably mature program with substantial amounts of new knowledge. It more
often than not make the program slower and weaker. But adding higher order
smoothing functions might be acceptable. Working on reducing a program search
graph also imparts new knowledge into the program.

MvH Dan Andersson



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