Author: Severi Salminen
Date: 10:17:08 01/16/02
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>Not sure what you mean by "understand" but I recall seeing many Winboard chess >engines play b4 and follow up with b5 in QGD positons when out of book. > >I suppose some sort knowledge based on the pawn chain/structure would be >sufficent..And once b4,b5 is played the rest would be handled automatically by >search, bonus/penalties for backward,isolated pawns? Well, Requiem doesn't know anything about minority/majority attack, opposition, weak/strong bishops, but still it sometimes seems to understand those aspects. Requiem pushes many times pawns even without any knowledge. So unless you see source codes, you can't possibly know what the program actually evaluates. You are right: fast search makes many evaluation terms obsolete, IMHO. Severi
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